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Police vehicles burn near an Iraqi Police station in Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 11, 2004. Insurgents attacked police stations in several parts of the city, and explosions and gunfire could be heard in various areas. Gunmen could be seen roaming the streets, and a curfew imposed this week remained in effect.
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Iraqis gather at the scene of a huge explosion that hit the heart of Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 11, 2004, sending up plumes of thick black smoke above the central part of the capital. A police officer said the blast was caused by a car bomb that hit Nasser Square on Saadoun Street, a densely populated commercial area with major hotels housing foreigners.
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A neighbor looks at bullet holes in the window of his home across the street from the Allawi family kidnapping scene in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2004. Two members of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's family were abducted from their home Tuesday evening, including his cousin, Ghazi Allawi, and his cousin's daughter-in law.
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Marines of the 1st Division take a back road with their convoy to reach Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2004.
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A car burns at Iskandariya, in central Iraq, Nov. 10 2004, after a car bomb detonated accidentally, killing the bomber inside before reaching its destination. There were no other casualties.
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An Iraqi boy aims a toy gun toward a car that was crushed by a U.S. military vehicle in the Dora section of Baghdad, Nov. 10, 2004, after clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents overnight.
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A 9-year-old Iraqi girl recovers from a skull fracture and two broken legs in the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004, as hospital staff x-ray a Marine injured in Fallujah in the background. A U.S. Army Bradley fighting vehicle crashed into her family's car, according to her parents. The hospital is considered the busiest American combat trauma hospital in the world.
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A U.S. Marine aims gun as smoke rises during U.S. bombardment of insurgent positions in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004.
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An Iraqi soldier guards a railroad station as smoke rises during a U.S. air strike against insurgent targets in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004.
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Sgt. 1st Class Rodney Chiles checks the wounds of a U.S. Marine injured by a roadside bomb, after being evacuated to a military hospital in Baghdad, Nov. 9, 2004.
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U.S. Marines guard the railroad station in Fallujah, Nov. 9, 2004. U.S. Army and Marine units entered the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah through a breach near the railroad station.
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Iraqis gather inside the damaged St. Matthew Church in Baghdad, Nov. 9, 2004, following a car bomb attack Monday night. Militants detonated car bombs in quick succession near two churches in southern Baghdad after sundown Monday, killing at least three people and injuring 52 others, according to the U.S. military and police.
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Smoke bellows from the railroad station in Fallujah as U.S. soldiers and Marines pounded the city with air strikes and artillery early morning, Nov. 9, 2004.
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An American soldier looks over the wreckage after two Iraqi construction workers were killed and four others injured by a car bomb near an Iraqi Army camp near Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004.
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An Iraqi police officer looks out from the damaged police station after an attack by militants in Buhriz, Nov. 9, 2004. Militants using Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed two police stations, in the towns of Buhriz and Mafrag, near Baqouba in central Iraq, wounding 18 people, police and hospital officials said.
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Iraqi national troops drive past after a car bomb exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Nov. 8, 2004, injuring 12 Iraqi bystanders and one U.S. soldier. The car bomb exploded near a U.S. Army convoy, which was able to move out of the explosion area, though three civilian vehicles were damaged.
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Insurgents, using small arms and mortars, launch an attack on U.S. forces in Fallujah, Nov. 8, 2004. American troops fought their way into the western outskirts of Fallujah, seizing a hospital and two bridges over the Euphrates River in the first stage of a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.
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U.S. Army soldiers recover a body after at least two people were killed by an insurgent attack on a civilian convoy on the road leading to Baghdad's international airport, Nov. 8, 2004. One vehicle was overturned by the blast while the other burst into flames.
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A U.S. soldier breaking open a door as troops enter a Fallujah hospital, Nov. 8, 2004. U.S. forces stormed into western districts of Fallujah, seizing the main city hospital and securing two key bridges over the Euphrates River in what appeared to be the first stage of the long-expected assault on the rebel stronghold.
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U.S. Marines of the First Division take position on the outskirts of Fallujah, Nov. 8, 2004.
