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A U.S. Marine of the 1st Division gestures during a patrol outside Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 31, 2004. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control to a swathe of Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital ahead of crucial national elections due by Jan. 31.
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A U.S. Marine sniper from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, searches for targets from a rooftop position in Ramadi, Iraq, Oct. 31, 2004.
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An Iraqi child looks up as Marines of the 1st Division make a house search outside Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2004. US forces are preparing for a possible attack on the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
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A convoy of trucks carrying bottled water for U.S. troops burns after being attacked in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2004.
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A U.S. Marine from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, watches the area through his rifle scope during a raid in a residential section of Ramadi, Iraq, Oct. 28, 2004. Marines raided dozens of buildings, detained six Iraqis and recovered small arms and ammunition, while insurgents attacked the area with mortars and detonated a roadside bomb as the Marines returned to their base.
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A car burns in Mosul, Iraq ,after exploding next to a convoy of U.S. forces, Oct. 28, 2004. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
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A man cries for his slain son while next to a charred civilian vehicle, which was blown up when insurgents set off a car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 28, 2004. The man, whose son was killed six months ago, mourns regularly at the site of new bombings.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Jessie Jackson screams in pain from shrapnel wounds while being evacuated in a helicopter with Spc. Dustin Hughes from a base north of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 27, 2004.
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Neighbors walk through the rubble of a house after an apparent overnight airstrike in Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 28, 2004.
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A U.S. Army soldier stands guard at the blast site of a destroyed sports-utility vehicle at the airport highway in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 27, 2004.
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U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, run to a building after detonating explosives to open a gate during a mission in Ramadi, Iraq, Oct. 26, 2004.
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British Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington Regiment, take cover in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Oct. 26, 2004, during clashes with armed gunmen. The Duke of Wellington Regiment arrived in Basra two days ago to replace the Cheshire battle group.
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U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, patrol in a Humvee in Ramadi, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2004.
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Iraqis inspect a destroyed building in Fallujah, outside Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 26, 2004, after U.S. troops pounded Fallujah with airstrikes, destroying one house and damaging three others.
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A wounded Iraqi boy looks on following a bomb explosion, Oct. 25, 2004, near a U.S.- Australian military convoy in central Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least three people and injuring several, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.
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U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment search a building in Ramadi, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2004.
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An Iraqi policeman covers up the body of an Iraqi man after a bomb exploded, Oct. 25, 2004 near a U.S. military convoy in central Baghdad, Iraq.
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Iraqis arrive to the scene after Iraqi government buildings and a military convoy in two near-simultaneous bomb attacks were targeted in Mosul, northern Iraq.
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Soldiers of the Iraqi National Guard stand by the bodies of fellow Iraqi soldiers in Mendeli, north-east of Baquba, Iraq, Oct. 24, 2004. The bodies of about 50 Iraqi soldiers were found on a remote road in eastern Iraq, apparently the victims of an ambush as they were heading home on leave, Iraqi authorities said.
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An Iraqi boy is escorted by his father to school after a bomb exploded, Oct. 25, 2004 near a U.S. military convoy in central Baghdad, Iraq. The bomb was targeting the U.S. convoy when it detonated in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad.
