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An Iraqi man is detained by U.S. Army soldiers from K Troop, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi security forces after they rescued 50 kidnapped university students in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, April 6, 2008.
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Lamia Sheet, centre, wife of Father Youssed Adel, cries as she holds her husband's picture, in front of mourners carrying the casket for a funeral at the St. Peter and Paul church, Baghdad, Sunday, April. 6, 2008. An Assyrian Orthodox priest was shot to death on Saturday by gunmen using silencers as the Christian cleric and his wife returned home after a trip to the market in Baghdad.
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An Iraqi man raises his hands as the men in his family are detained for questioning after the kidnap of 50 university students in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, April 6, 2008.
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Local Iraqi people and rescuers check on a destroyed house in Basra, Iraq, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Thursday April 3, 2008.
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U.S. Army soldier 1-27IN, 25th infantry division takes up a position near the Patrol Base Texas in southern Sadr City, Baghdad, on Thursday, April 3, 2008. The base overlooks a spot the U.S. military says the Mahdi Army used to launch rockets and mortars toward the Green Zone.
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An Iraqi woman weeps at a destroyed house in Basra, Iraq, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Thursday April 3, 2008. A U.S. air strike destroyed a house in the southern city of Basra, killing a militant, the U.S. military said Thursday. Iraqi witnesses and hospital officials said at least three civilians were among the dead.
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Sgt. Steven Walters from Charlie company 1-27IN, 25th infantry division observes the area around Patrol Base Texas in southern Sadr City, Baghdad, on Thursday, April 3, 2008.
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An Iraqi police vehicle is removed from the bombing scene in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 3, 2008. A parked car bomb targeted a police patrol in western Baghdad, killing at least one civilian and wounding 10 other people, including three officers.
AP Photo/Nabil Al Jurani
Iraqi soldiers secure a street in a show of force in a militia stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the southern city of Basra, about 340 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
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Farha Jawad holds a ration card as she waits to receive aid from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
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Medics rush Ali Hussein into a hospital in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 2, 2008, as his brother stands alongside. Hussein was wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in Sadr City, wounding another three civilians, police said.
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An Iraqi woman walks past a demolished car that was destroyed during a bombing and recent clashes between the Mahdi Army and Iraqi government forces backed by the U.S. military in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 1, 2008.
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Iraqis carry the coffin of one of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's top security officials, Salim Qassim, during an official funeral ceremony in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 1, 2008. Salim Qassim, known by his nickname Abu Laith al-Kadhimi was killed during a mortar attack in Basra on Sunday, March 30, 2008.
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Residents check damage to their apartments after a bombing and recent clashes between the Mahdi Army and Iraqi government forces backed by the U.S. military in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 31, 2008.
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U.S. Army soldiers from K Troop, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment prepare to force their way into a home after coming under fire in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, March 31, 2008.
AP Photo/Karim Kadim
Residents check damage to their apartments after a bombing and recent clashes between the Mahdi Army and Iraqi government forces backed by the U.S. military in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 31, 2008.
AP Photo/Karim Kadim
Iraqis check out the aftermath of a bombing and recent clashes between the Mahdi Army and Iraqi government forces backed by the U.S. military in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 31, 2008.
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Haidar Mohammed, 12, foreground, lies in a hospital in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 31, 2008. The boy was wounded in clashes Sunday between the Mahdi Army and government forces backed by the American military.
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A woman rushes her son to the hospital in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 31, 2008. The boy was wounded in clashes Sunday between the Mahdi Army and government forces backed by the U.S. military.
AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo
A U.S. Army soldier from K Troop, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment stands guard as an Iraqi man is searched after a rocket propelled grenade attack on U.S. troops in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, March 31, 2008.