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** FILE ** A British soldier stands guard at the Umm Qasr port in Basra, Iraq, in May 2007. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
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Security forces inspect the scene of twin bombings in Kirkuk, Iraq, 180 miles north of Baghdad, on Thursday, May 19, 2011. The blasts, which appeared timed to lure police out of their fortified headquarters, killed and wounded dozens of police officers. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
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** FILE ** U.S. Army Lt. Daniel McCord (left), Staff Sgt. Marc Krugh (center) and Sgt. Christopher Torrentes of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment pray before heading out on a patrol at Contingency Operating Site Kalsu, south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
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Illustration: Iran and Iraq by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
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Associated Press photographs An unconventional politician, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said that China should face taxes on imports until it stops manipulating its currency and that the U.S. should seize Iraq's oil fields to pay itself back for the cost of the war. But a retired GOP senator says few are taking his candidacy seriously.
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Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a suicide car bombing in Hillah, Iraq, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, on Thursday, May 5, 2011. The blast outside a police station killed 20 policemen and injured 40 more, a local councilman said. (AP Photo)
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A lawmaker casts his vote in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city located 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Local lawmakers elected a new governor for a job that had been vacant for nearly two months. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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** FILE ** Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, here in 2004 with U.S. troops in Iraq. (Associated Press)
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U.S. unit commanders in Iraq devised their own counter-insurgency tactics, author James A. Russell says in a new book.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates walks on the tarmac after meeting with Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud Barzani on April 8 at the airport in Irbil, Iraq. Mr. Gates recently told lawmakers that a special funding measure contains $159 billion that is “not related to war," according to Arizona Republican Rep. Jeff Flake, who is looking for budget “pork” to cut. (Associated Press)
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First Lieutenant Ungaro and Second Lieutenant Tilly standby as EOD preps a robot at an IED site in Iraq. (U.S. Army)
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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An Iranian cleric tours a battlefield from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war on Sunday, the eve of the Persian New Year. President Obama's holiday message criticized Iran's "campaign of intimidation and abuse." (Associated Press)
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Relatives of Salim Farooq, 18, carry his coffin during his funeral procession in Basra, Iraq, last month. Mr. Farooq was killed during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, his family said. (Associated Press)
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Relatives of Salim Farooq, 18, carry his coffin during his funeral procession in Basra, Iraq, the country's second-largest city, on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Farooq was killed on Friday during a demonstration in Basra, his family said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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Iraqi policemen prevent anti-government protesters from entering the Basra provincial headquarters during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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Iraqi anti-government protesters climb and push concrete blast walls leading to the heavily guarded Green Zone during a demonstration in Baghdad Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. Thousands marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq on Friday, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Protesters clash with police in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. Thousands marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq on Friday, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Iraqi riot police officers prevent anti-government protesters from entering the Basra provincial headquarters during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators massed in the southern city of Basra to demand the ousting of the local governor, a day after a similar anti-government protest sparked violence that killed a few people. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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Protesters sit on the ground in front of the provincial headquarters building in Kut, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. On Wednesday about 2,000 stone-throwing demonstrators attacked local government offices, setting fire to some buildings, including the governor's house. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
