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| | | | | | | US President Bush declared major combat in Iraq over on May 1 and called the six-week war "one victory" in the campaign against terror. | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pauses during a debate at the Senate, Italy's upper house of parliament, in Rome November 12, 2003. Berlusconi urged his country to remain united after a car bomb ripped through an Italian military police base in the Iraqi town of Nassiriya, killing at least 18 Italians and nine Iraqis. The attack occurred as Washington attempted to speed up the process of handing over power to an Iraqi government. [Reuters] | | | |
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| Iraqi fighters muster forces during a gun battle with U.S. forces in the streets of Karbala, 110 kilometers south of Baghdad Friday Oct. 17, 2003. A midnight clash with Shiite militants in the same location left three U.S. military policemen and nine Iraqis dead. [AP] | | | | | An unidentified armed gunman rush to the scene after a huge explosion believed caused by a car bomb rocked central Baghdad near the Baghdad Hotel, which is thought to be an office of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the Iraqi capital, Sunday Oct. 12, 2003. [AP] | | | | | Turkish demonstrators chant Islamic slogans as they set fire to American and Israeli flags during a protest in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday Sept. 27, 2003. [AP] | | | | | Iraqis attend the funeral of Muslim Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, in Baghdad Aug 31, 2003. Up to five suspects, all of them Iraqi, have been detained over the car bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Najaf that killed the Shi'ite cleric and scores of his followers. [Reuters] | | | | | An Iraqi boy listens to the news on a radio in Baghdad March 24, 2003. In a televised address on Monday Iraqi President Saddam Hussein hailed Iraqi military efforts to resist a US-led invasion to overthrow him and said the invaders had suffered heavy losses. [Reuters] | | | | | An Iraqi boy tosses a cigarette to Iraqi prisoners of war alongside a road leading to the southern Iraq city of Basra March 23, 2003. Fierce air strikes shook Baghdad on Monday but Iraqi fighters, buoyed by US and British setbacks, stalled forces trying to sweep north to the capital. Picture taken March 23. [Reuters] | | | |
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