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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)
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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)
