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Leaders of Iraq's main political blocs meeting Monday are (front row, from left) ex-Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, President Jalal Talabani and ex- Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. (Iraqi government via Associated Press)
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Iraq's new Parliament convenes on June 14, only to adjourn 20 minutes later, keeping the session open but unattended to allow more time to choose its leadership. Sharp divisions among political blocs have prevented the formation of a new government, and not a single law has been debated. (Associated Press)
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Iraqi Christian lawmaker, Younadem Kana, center left, Iraq's top Catholic prelate, Chaldean Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, center, and Bishop Shlimone Wardoni, center right, are seen outside Our Lady of Deliverance church the morning after its congregation was taken hostage in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Nov. 1, 2010. Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad church where militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving dozens of people dead, including a priest, Iraqi officials said Monday.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reportedly told his visitor, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, that Iraq's 7-month-old political crisis needs to be resolved. (Iranian Supreme Leader's office via Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In a Sept. 22, 2010, file photo, Albert Snyder, 55, talks about his son, Matthew, a Marine who was killed in Iraq, and about the Supreme Court case that will focus on a lawsuit he filed against Rev. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church for protesting his son's funeral, in York, Pa. (AP Photo/Ann Foster,File)
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In this Wednesday, July 28, 2010 file picture, Lt. Matt Fryer smiles as he lifts his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Clarity on the tarmac at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Lt. Fryer was among 350 airmen returning home to the South Dakota airbase after being deployed in Southeast Asia for six months in support of the 28th Bomb Wing whose B-1 bombers supply long-range and close air support to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe, File)
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In this Saturday, March 15, 2008 file picture, thousands of anti-war protesters walk past the Houses of Parliament in central London, calling for troops to be pulled out from Iraq and Afghanistan and to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
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Atheel al-Nujaifi, governor of Iraq's Ninevah province, says democracy will be threatened if Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister keeps his job. (AP Photo)
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In this Oct. 18, 2006, file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki walks through central Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)
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In this Monday, July 19, 2010, file photo, Muqtada al-Sadr, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite political clerics, speaks to reporters in Damascus, Syria. Aides to Mr. al-Sadr say his powerful political bloc has agreed to support Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bid to stay in power and end a nearly seven-month political impasse. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)
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An undated image made from a video posted on an insurgent website shows a Humvee struck by an explosion that the Shi'ite militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq claims was an attack on U.S. troops on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010, in Basra, Iraq. (AP Photo)
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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An Iraqi soldier secures the scene of a suicide car bombing that targeted a crowded commercial area near an AsiaCell store (in the background), one of Iraq's biggest mobile phone providers, in Baghdad on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. Another bomb exploded during the morning rush hour, killing or wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo)
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People seen at the explosion site after a roadside bomb attack killed nine people traveling aboard a minibus near the village of Gecitli in the rugged Hakkari province bordering Iran and Iraq, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010, in the latest violence to shake. (AP Photo/Yilmaz Kazandioglu, Anatolia Agency)
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**FILE** U.S. Army soldiers and Iraqi security forces secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack in Basra, Iraq, in September. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Iraq by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times
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A man look at a destroyed car, salvaged from the March 5, 2007 bombing of a historic street book market in Baghdad, Iraq, that killed 38 people and currently exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, in London Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Artist Jeremy Deller has worked with the museum to present the vehicle as evidence of the impact of modern warfare on civilians by displaying it in the museum's main atrium alongside some of the most powerful military hardware of the last 100 years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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People surround a destroyed car, bottom, salvaged from the March 5, 2007 bombing of a historic street book market in Baghdad, Iraq, that killed 38 people and currently exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, in London Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Artist Jeremy Deller has worked with the museum to present the vehicle as evidence of the impact of modern warfare on civilians by displaying it in the museum's main atrium alongside some of the most powerful military hardware of the last 100 years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Artifacts are displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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An AK-47, with Saddam Hussein's image on it, is displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
