Iraq

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A suspicious vehicle shuts down traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue between 12th and 14th Streets while trying to enter the Reagan Building as hundreds of protesters upset about a variety of issues from the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to corporate greed and jobs gather across the street at Freedom Plaza before marching to the White House, Chamber of Commerce and along K Street in NW Washington, DC, October 6, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Henry Brann, left, and others play together at a drum circle as hundreds of protesters upset about a variety of issues from the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to corporate greed and jobs gather at Freedom Plaza before marching to the White House, Chamber of Commerce and along K Street in NW Washington, DC, October 6, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)s

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Protesters Eric Sponaugle, center, Colleen Clementine, second from right, and Banjo Youngblood, right, are woken and asked to move by police officers after spending the night near Mcpherson Square before joining hundreds of protesters upset about a variety of issues from the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to corporate greed and jobs gather at Freedom Plaza before marching to the White House, Chamber of Commerce and along K Street in NW Washington, DC, October 6, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Protester Barry Freed with Occupy DC holds a sign that reads "End the FED" and wears a Guy Fox mask with hundreds of other protesters upset about a variety of issues from the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to corporate greed outside the Chamber of Commerce building in NW Washington, DC, October 6, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (left) looks on as Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, before the Senate Armed Services Committee on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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Mourners react during the funeral of slain Shiite pilgrims at the Imam Hussein Shrine in the holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. The victims were killed when gunmen forced their way onto a bus of pilgrims Monday and shot all 22 men aboard as they traveled through western Iraq's remote desert on their way to a holy shrine, security officials said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Lt. Col. Daniel Wilson lights a candle Sunday at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar province, Afghanistan, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the attacks and the soldiers his Hawaii-based unit has lost since then in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from July 24, 2010, Turkish soldiers march after a funeral ceremony for captain Ibrahim Baris Yurtseven, an army officer who was killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakkari at Turkey-Iraq border, at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Samir Yousif, 31, is treated at a hospital in Kut, Iraq, after a car bomb exploded on Monday.

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Iraqi police and a working dog inspect the site of a bombing that destroyed a church in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Monday. Bomb blasts ripped through more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday, killing 60 security forces and civilians in the worst attack this year, one that highlighted al Qaeda's resolve and ability to wreak havoc.

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Iraqi security forces, seen here through the broken glass of a police car, inspect the site where a suicide car bomber plowed his vehicle into a checkpoint outside a police building just outside the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on Aug. 15, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Iraqi security forces inspect the site where a suicide car bomber plowed his vehicle into a checkpoint outside a police building just outside the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

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"It is clear that Tehran seeks a weak Iraq and an Iraq more dependent upon and more beholden to a Persian worldview," Adm. Mike Mullen said. (Associated Press)

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen speaks to reporters at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. (AP Photo File/Maya Alleruzzo)

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An Iraqi man inspects a destroyed liquor store after a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Sgt. James T. Hackemer, who lost both legs in a roadside bombing in the Iraq war, receives a van through Help Our Military Heroes in Beltsville, Md., in March 2011. (AP Photo/Help Our Military Heroes, Marybeth Vandergrift)

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Iraq's ambassador to the United States, Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie, speaks during a repatriation ceremony of Iraqi antiquities at the Iraqi Cultural Center. Mr. Sumaida'ie will fly to Baghdad with the collection to present it to Iraq's Foreign Ministry, which will place the objects in national museums.