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FILE - In this file photo taken on March 20, 2014, al-Qaida fighters patrol in a commandeered Iraqi security forces truck in Fallujah, Iraq. Iraqi military officials are warning that efforts to clear militants from Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi are proving much more difficult than they anticipated when the jihadists showed up three months ago. That realization, as they acknowledged during a recent tour of special forces operations, casts doubt on Iraq's ability to hold elections in Fallujah next month. (AP Photo, File)
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In this file photo taken on March 20, 2014 al-Qaida fighters patrol in a commandeered Iraqi security forces truck in Fallujah, Iraq. Iraqi military officials are warning that efforts to clear militants from Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi are proving much more difficult than they anticipated when the jihadists showed up three months ago. That realization, as they acknowledged during a recent tour of special forces operations, casts doubt on Iraq's ability to hold elections in Fallujah next month. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this file photo taken on March 15, 2014, masked anti-government gunmen hold their weapons as they patrol in Fallujah, Iraq. Iraqi military officials are warning that efforts to clear militants from Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi are proving much more difficult than they anticipated when the jihadists showed up three months ago. That realization, as they acknowledged during a recent tour of special forces operations, casts doubt on Iraq's ability to hold elections in Fallujah next month. (AP Photo, File)
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In this photo released by the Iraqi Army taken on March 20, 2014, the commander of Anbar Operations, Lt. Gen. Rasheed Fleih, center, speaks with officers before attacking al-Qaida positions in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi military officials are warning that efforts to clear militants from Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi are proving much more difficult than they anticipated when the jihadists showed up three months ago. That realization, as they acknowledged during a recent tour of special forces operations, casts doubt on Iraq's ability to hold elections in Fallujah next month. (AP Photo/Iraqi Army)
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In this photo released by the Iraqi Army taken on March 20, 2014, the commander of Anbar Operations, Lt. Gen. Rasheed Fleih, right, speaks with officers before attacking al-Qaida positions in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi military officials are warning that efforts to clear militants from Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi are proving much more difficult than they anticipated when the jihadists showed up three months ago. That realization, as they acknowledged during a recent tour of special forces operations, casts doubt on Iraq's ability to hold elections in Fallujah next month. (AP Photo/HO)
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In this photo taken on March 22, 2014, Iraq's Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) ride in a helicopter on their way to take a vacation after two months of fighting with al-Qaida militants in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi military officials are warning that efforts to clear militants from Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi are proving much more difficult than they anticipated when the jihadists showed up three months ago. That realization, as they acknowledged during a recent tour of special forces operations, casts doubt on Iraq's ability to hold elections in Fallujah next month. (AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)
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In this photo released by the Iraqi Army taken on March 20, 2014, Iraqi Security forces prepare to attack al-Qaida positions in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi military officials are warning that efforts to clear militants from Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi are proving much more difficult than they anticipated when the jihadists showed up three months ago. That realization, as they acknowledged during a recent tour of special forces operations, casts doubt on Iraq's ability to hold elections in Fallujah next month. (AP Photo/Iraqi Army)
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In this photo released by the Iraqi Army taken on March 20, 2014, Iraqi Security forces deploy in front of a damaged mosque after clashes with al-Qaida fighters in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi military officials are warning that efforts to clear militants from Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi are proving much more difficult than they anticipated when the jihadists showed up three months ago. That realization, as they acknowledged during a recent tour of special forces operations, casts doubt on Iraq's ability to hold elections in Fallujah next month. (AP Photo/Iraqi Army)
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In this photo released by the Iraqi Army taken on March 20, 2014, Iraq's acting Minister of Defense Saadoun al-Dulaimi, center, walks with Lt. Gen. Ali Ghaidan, center left, commander of the army's ground forces and the commander of Anbar Operations, Lt. Gen. Rasheed Fleih, center right, in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi military officials are warning that efforts to clear militants from Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi are proving much more difficult than they anticipated when the jihadists showed up three months ago. That realization, as they acknowledged during a recent tour of special forces operations, casts doubt on Iraq's ability to hold elections in Fallujah next month. (AP Photo/Iraqi Army)
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In this photo released by the Iraqi Army taken on March 20, 2014, Iraqi Security forces deploy after clashes with militants in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. This grueling urban warfare in the Ramadi suburb of al-Bakir, witnessed by an Associated Press reporter, is part of a deadly standoff pitting government forces and allied tribal militias against the Islamic State and allied rebels in Anbar province, the heartland of Iraq’s Sunni minority. They hold part of the provincial capital Ramadi and nearly all of nearby city of Fallujah.(AP Photo/Iraqi Army)
