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Relatives carry the coffin of Rasha Hassan, 22, before her burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. A wave of explosions struck two Shiite neighborhoods on Thursday, killing and injuring dozens of Iraqis, police said, and intensifying fears that insurgents are stepping up attacks after the U.S. troop withdrawal that was completed last month. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
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In this Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, photo, people gather at a coffee shop in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis are again segregating themselves along sectarian lines, prompted by a political crisis pulling at the explosive Sunni-Shiite divide just weeks after the American withdrawal left Iraq to chart its own future. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Air Force Tech Sgt. Matthew Pierce is swarmed by daughters (from left) Kimi, 16; Kathleen, 11; Keri Lu, 14, and Kris, 18, as he returns home Dec. 16 from a six-month stint in Afghanistan, one of his numerous deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan in his 11 years in the military.
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Brian Beales, with the Air Force, is joyously reunited with wife Timorah; daughter Carissa, 1; and son Brian, 2, after being deployed to Iraq for four months. The family reconnected Dec. 1 at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
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Bob and Carol Roddy place flowers on the grave of son David, who died in Iraq in 2006. "After our son was killed, we just wanted a connection, a connection with the young men and women who were still over there," Mrs. Roddy said of Operation Welcome Home Maryland.
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Volunteers shake hands and welcome home soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan at the international arrival gate of Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Baltimore, MD, Friday, December 16, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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People look at bodies lying on the ground Dec. 29. 2011, after Turkey's air force attacked suspected Kurdish rebel targets across the border in Iraq, killing at least 35 people — many of them believed to be smugglers mistaken for guerrillas — near the village of Ortasu in Sirnak, Turkey. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press near Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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** FILE ** Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad in December 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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** FILE ** In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, file photo, Iraq's vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)
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Iraq's Shiite-led government issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** U.S. Army soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division, the last American unit to leave Iraq, arrive at Camp Virginia in Kuwait. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Elama Palemene greets his wife, Annaden (right), and children Ko' Elani (left) and Pe' Ela during an early morning welcome-home ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas, for about 300 soldiers returning home from deployment in Iraq on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Erich Schlegel)
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A member of the Iraqi army waves the national flag after a ceremony signing over Camp Adder, near Nasiriyah in Iraq, the last United States base in the country, to the Iraqi air force on Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Lucas Jackson, Pool)
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The last convoy of solders from the U.S. Army's 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, crosses the border from Iraq into Kuwait on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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In this Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, photo, a U.S. Army soldier from 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, based at Fort Hood, Texas, sits on top of his armored vehicle at Camp Adder during final preparations for the last American convoy to leave Iraq. The U.S. military says the last American troops have left Iraq as the nearly nine-year war ends. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) ** FILE **
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A Kuwaiti border guard watches a convoy from the U.S. Army's 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. The brigade's special troops battalion are the last American soldiers to leave Iraq. The U.S. military says the last American troops have left Iraq as the nearly nine-year war ends. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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HOMEWARD BOUND: Soldiers with the 1st Cavalry Division show appreciation for the band Filter as they relax Thursday at Camp Virginia, Kuwait, where they await deployment home after leaving Iraq. (Associated Press)
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An Iraqi woman greets US Marine Sgt. Mary Kate Linnane in a Baghdad, Iraq suburb Sunday, April 13, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
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Iraqi citizens claiming to be civil police, engineers and doctors answered a broadcast on BBC radio to come to the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq as the US military begins trying to establish a civilian force to restore order and public utilities Saturday, April 12, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
