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A video posted online Saturday, April 7, 2012, purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime still at large, lashing out against Iraq's Shiite-led government. It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the video or determine when it was made. (AP Photo/AP Video)
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In this picture taken on Feb. 19, 2012, wax figures depicting Shiite clerics are on display at the wax museum in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Even before they go on display, the wax figures have become embroiled in controversy. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (center) attends the Arab League summit in Baghdad on Thursday, March, 29, 2012. Only 10 leaders of the 22-member bloc are in attendance. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Demonstrators in Fallujah, Iraq, on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, chant slogans in support of the Arab Summit scheduled to start Thursday in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo)
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (center) attends a meeting of Arab economic, finance and trade ministers as part of the Arab League summit in Baghdad on Tuesday. Economic ministers from across the Arab world are looking at ways to develop tourism and ensure access to increasingly strapped water supplies in the region to boost economic stability in their countries. (Associated Press)
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Family members of Ahmed Mohammed, 34, who was killed in a car bombing, load his coffin onto a vehicle before burial in Najaf, Iraq, on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
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Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr chant anti-Iraqi government slogans and wave Iraqi flags during a protest March 19, 2012, in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad. Followers of the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, seen on the poster, are demanding better living conditions in Iraq on the ninth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of their country. (Associated Press)
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This image taken from TV Saturday, March 17, 2012, shows a man identified as Randy Michael, who is purported to be an American contractor, in Baghdad, Iraq, after he was released from captivity and handed over to the United Nations by Shiite lawmakers representing the hardline followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. (AP Photo/MASAR TV)
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President Barack Obama leads guests to a toast as he hosts a dinner for members of the U.S. military who served in Iraq in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb., 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Rep. Ron Paul's budget plans include eliminating five Cabinet departments, ending operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and cutting federal programs. (Idaho Statesman via Associated Press)
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People look over the wreck of a car after an explosion. Apparently coordinated bombings and shootings unfolded Thursday in Baghdad and 11 other cities in Iraq. The violence killed at least 55 people. (Associated Press)
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Aws Fahmy (left), 45, who was injured in the U.S. Marines raid in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 and Omer Chasib, who lost his father in the same attack, stand Jan. 24, 2012, at the scene of the raid. (Associated Press)
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Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul-Karim Elaibi, OPEC's acting president, said that while Iran's "enemies" have imposed sanctions on the Islamic republic, OPEC's focus should be protecting its members' interest and not being dragged into a political struggle. (Associated Press)
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Theatre: Time Stands Still Media coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sometimes been as much about journalists as soldiers. In 2006, ABC's Bob Woodruff was nearly killed when shrapnel from a roadside bomb in Iraq tore through his brain. In 2010, New York Times' photographer Joao Silva stepped on a mine while embedded with troops in Afghanistan. As grace would have it, Woodruff and Silva are both still able to do journalism. But that doesn't mean the recovery process was simple, or easy. Silva lost both of his legs and had to learn to walk with prostheses; Woodruff, in an interview with USA Today two years after the explosion, was not able to remember the name of the device that changes the channels on a TV ("remote control"). What happens after the hospital is the subject of Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still. First performed on Broadway in early 2010 with a cast that featured Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James, Eric Bogosian, and Alicia Silverstone, Time Stands Still tells the story of Sarah Goodwin, a female war photographer who returns to a fraught marriage after suffering an injury that left her scarred and limping. Her recovery, however, is complicated by the emotional gulf between her and her partner, a war journalist who suffered a mental breakdown and fled Iraq shortly before Goodwin was injured; and the reappearance in her life of an old flame. To Feb. 12 at Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW. Phone: (202) 332-3300. Web: www.studiotheatre.org
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Itzcoatl Ocampo, a former Marine who saw combat in Iraq, stands at left with an unidentified person in this electronic device photo taken during a 2011 visit to the Richard Nixon Library and birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif. Ocampo has been named as a suspect in a series of killings of homeless men in Orange County, Calif. (Associated Press/Courtesy of Ocampo Family)
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Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car-bomb attack outside Mosul, Iraq, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Mercedes Bagceci, an Army specialist, and her husband, Ismail, who met in Iraq, attended a job fair in the District dedicated to helping military spouses. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Asmar Abboud, 31, wounded in a bombing attack on Shiite pilgrims on Saturday, is treated at a hospital in Basra, Iraq, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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Shiite faithful pilgrims gather at the Imam Hussein Shrine in Karbala, for Arbaeen, which marks the end of the 45 mourning period after the anniversary of the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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**FILE** Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (center) speaks at a ceremony marking Police Day at the police academy in Baghdad on Jan. 9, 2012. (Associated Press)
