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A soldier in the 1st Squad, 4th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division climbs the stairs in an abandoned house Sunday, June 17, 2007, in the tense Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. The 1/4 Cav is part of the "surge" in troops that is now attempting to pacify Baghdad and move the city's warring factions toward political compromise.
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U.S. Army medics treat a wounded Iraqi at their combat outpost at the Dora market in Baghdad, Iraq, after a gunfight between suspected Sunni insurgents and U.S troops broke out nearby on Sunday, June 17, 2007.
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Soldiers of Apache troop in the 1st Squad, 4th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division photograph an air strike against suspected insurgent areas Sunday, June 17, 2007, in Baghdad, Iraq. American forces frequently call in aerials bombings against such sites as suspected bomb-making factories or insurgent meeting points.
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Soldiers of 1st Squad, 4th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division, burn wires that can be used for roadside bombs Sunday, June 17, 2007, in the tense Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Iraqis check on a destroyed Sunni mosque in Basra, Iraq, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Saturday, June 16, 2007. Bombers loaded into pickup trucks pulled up to the al-Ashrah al-Mubashra mosque in Basra's al-Hakimiya district at dawn Saturday, residents in nearby houses said. Minutes after they left, a huge explosion tore through the building, leveling it completely.
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U.S. soldiers of the 2nd brigade, 12th Infantry Division, company D, patrol the Dora neighborhood in southern Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, June 16, 2007. Smoke in the background came from burning trash.
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An Iraqi woman looks on from the entrance of her house, as U.S. soldiers patrol the area in the Dora neighborhood in southern Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, June 15, 2007.
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Iraqi Shiites perform weekly Friday prayers Friday, June 15, 2007, at a mosque in the holy city of Najaf, central Iraq.
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A huge unfinished mosque that was begun by the Saddam Hussein government amidst empty streets Thursday, June 14, 2007, in Baghdad, Iraq.
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An Iraqi man inspects destruction inflicted to a Sunni mosque which was attacked in the city of Al-Zubair near the southern city of Basra, June 15, 2007.
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A man surveys the destroyed Talha Bin al-Zubair shrine about 13 miles outside Basra, Iraq, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Friday, June 15, 2007. Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked the shrine late Thursday, partially damaging the building and returned early Friday, planting bombs inside the structure to completely destroy the building, police said.
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A US helicopter gunner is silhouetted as he looks over deserted streets in central Baghdad, Thursday, June 14, 2007, as the Iraqi government imposed a curfew in response to the second bombing of a Shiite holy shrine Askariya or Golden Dome in Samarra Wednesday. Wednesday's attack on the Askariya shrine in Samarra, which was blamed on Sunni extremists, stoked fears of a surge in violence between Muslim sects.
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Smoke billows from the Shiite Imam al-Askari shrine in the restive city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. The two minarets of the revered Shiite shrine collapsed after loud explosions. The shrine's Golden Dome was bombed last year.
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A man carries portrait of most influential Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, as Iraqi Shiites protested a bombing of a holy Shiite shrine in Samarra earlier in the day.
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Militants mount a heavy machine in the city of Buhriz, 35 miles north of Baghdad, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Local militants took over the control of the town and vowed to fight al Qaeda. U.S. commanders, trying to seize upon a successful trend born in western Iraq's Anbar province.
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Women cry in the city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, as Iraqi Shiites protested a bombing of a holy Shiite shrine in Samarra earlier in the day.
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A watch tower of the famous Golden Dome Shiite shrine is left standing alone after insurgents blew up the two minarets in Samarra, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. The Askariya shrine's dome was destroyed on Feb. 22, 2006, in a bombing blamed on Sunni Muslim militants believed linked to al-Qaida that unleashed a wave of sectarian violence that continues to bloody Iraq.
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Iraqi youths gather at the scene where a roadside bomb targeted an interior ministry forces convoy in Samarra, 80 miles north of Baghdad, 11 June 2007. At least two police commandos were killed and three others were wounded in the attack.
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An Iraqi army soldier mans a checkpoint at Baghdad's Kahramana square, June 12, 2007. Insurgents killed six people in Iraq today, four in shootings and two in a roadside bomb attack in central Baghdad, security officials said.
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A Kurdish Iraqi shows a photographer pieces of shrapnels found next to a crater, Monday, June 11, 2007 from Turkish artillery shells fired early June 9, 2007 on the village of Nizdori near the Kurdish city of Zakho, 5km from the Iraqi-Turkish border, northern Iraq.
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