Iraq

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In this Thursday, July 15, 2010, file photo, Iraq's Minister of Justice Dara Noureddin, left, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jerry Cannon, right, hold a symbolic key to the U.S. Theater Internment Facility at Camp Cropper during a ceremony transferring the facility to Iraqi control in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's justice minister says four al Qaeda-linked detainees have escaped from the Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the U.S. to Iraqi authorities a week ago. (AP Photo / Maya Alleruzzo, File)

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Iraq's Minister of Justice Dara Noureddin, left, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jerry Cannon, right, sign documents handing the U.S. Theater Internment Facility at Camp Cropper to Iraqi control at a ceremony, Thursday, July 15, 2010 in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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Illustration: Iraq by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, left, meets with Muqtada al-Sadr, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite political clerics, right, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, July 19, 2010. Mr. Allawi and Mr. al-Sadr are on a current visit to Syria to discuss the deadlocked government in Baghdad.(AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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A U.S. Army soldier from the 49th Military Police Brigade counts gas masks on Sunday, July 18, 2010, at Camp Victory in Baghdad as the unit prepares to ship their equipment and belongings home. The soldiers, based in Fairfield, Calif., are soon to leave Iraq as part of the U.S. drawdown of forces, which begins in earnest next month. The number of soldiers in Iraq is expected to go from 77,500 currently in the country to 50,000 by Sept. 1. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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Associated Press Iraqi Minister of Justice Dara Noureddin speaks after the ceremony transferring the last U.S.-controlled prison to Iraqi authorities on Thursday in Baghdad. The shift marked a milestone in Iraq's push for complete sovereignty.

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 10, 2008, file photo, detainees are seen outside their cell block at the U.S. detention facility at Camp Cropper in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens during a joint press availability with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, not shown, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Shi'ite pilgrims gather at the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine for the annual commemoration of the saint's death, in the Shi'ite district of Kazimiyah, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, his wife, Jill Biden, center and Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, right, are seen during a naturalization ceremony for service members at al-Faw Palace on the western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Sunday. Mr. Biden spoke with other Iraqi leaders and said "all are going to have to play a meaningful role in this new government." (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joe Biden (left) speaks Sunday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (right) as Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh (center) looks on in Baghdad, Iraq. Biden said all political blocs must be included in the new Iraqi government in order for it to succeed. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, Gen. Ray Odierno, center, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill, left, confer at the embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Army Sgt. Ted Wade, who was hit by an explosive in Iraq that caused him traumatic brain injury and severed his right arm, walks on a path of rocks during a visit to the "Central Park" room at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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A protester holds a flyer depicting Iraq's Electricity Minister Karim Waheed, top left, and Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, bottom left, during a demonstration against electricity shortages in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2010. Riot police in southern Iraq used water cannons to disperse protesters pelting them with stones Monday during a demonstration against power cuts as anger spread over the lack of basic utilities to fend off the country's searing summer heat. In Arabic, the flyer reads, "Karim Waheed and Zarqawi are two sides of the same coin." (AP Photo)

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**FILE** This 2003 photo obtained by the Associated Press shows a detainee bent over with his hands on the bars of a prison cell at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)

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FILE - This Sept. 21, 2008, file photo shows Iranian basij paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guard, attending a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran.