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**FILE** Gen. Hasan Firouzabadi (center), chief of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces, delivers a speech as Revolutionary Guard commander Mohammad Ali Jafari (right) and army commander Ataollah Salehi listen during Armed Forces parade just outside Tehran on Sept. 22, 2011, marking the 31st anniversary of the start of the Iraq-Iran war, in front of the mausoleum of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini. (Associated Press)
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Blindfolded suspected members of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are escorted at the federal police headquarters in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb 11, 2014. Iraq's Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) arrested 14 suspected al-Qaida members during recent security operations in Basra. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 4, 2014, which is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq's Anbar Province. The ISIL led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the main driver of destabilizing violence in Iraq and until recently was the main al-Qaida affiliate there. (AP Photo via militant website, File)
