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  • Anti-war protesters hold banners near the United Nations Headquarters Saturday, Feb 15, 2003 in New York to protest possible U.S. military action in Iraq. Demonstrations and protest marches against the war drew hundreds of thousands of people in cities around the world Saturday. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)
  • **FILE** FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH MARCH 20, 2003 ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S.-LED INVASION OF IRAQ** Ray Jacques reads the San Francisco Chronicle's war special section inside a Starbucks coffee shop in San Francisco, in this March 20, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/FILE/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
  • FILE - In this March 21, 2003 file photo, a government building burns during heavy bombardment of Baghdad, Iraq by U.S.-led forces. Almost seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
  • President Bush speaks at the United States Coast Guard installation Monday, March 31, 2003 in Philadelphia. Bush, linking war in Iraq to his global anti-terrorism campaign, warned that Saddam Hussein or his terrorist allies may try to strike America in retaliation for the U.S.-led fighting.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
  • An Iraqi prisoner of war conforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs of the 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf, in this March 31, 2003 file photo. The man was seized in An Najaf with his son and the U.S. military did not want to separate father and son. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File)
  • An unidentified US soldier stands guard as oil workers put out an oil well fire at Rumailah oil field, southern Iraq on Tuesday, April 1, 2003. Kuwaiti and American firefighters are putting out the blazes at six oil wells that were sabotaged, reportedly by retreating Iraqi forces. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)
  • Karem Mohammed weeps over the bodies of his family, inluding his six children, his wife, two brothers, mother and father in Al Hillah, Iraq120 kilometers south of Baghdad, Tuesday April 1, 2003. Hospital officials said over 300 were injured and 33 died during coalition air raids over the area. Karem, from Nasariya, had come to Al Hillal for safety. (AP Photo/Ali Heider)
  • President Bush gets a tour of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, May 1, 2003, off the California coast. The president will declare Thursday night that major combat in Iraq is finished during a speech aboard the carrier tonight as the Lincoln steams toward San Diego following a record 10-month deployment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  • President Bush greets an unidentified sailor after landing in a small jet on the USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast Thursday, May 1, 2003. Bush will declare that major combat in Iraq is finished during a speech aboard the carrier tonight as the Lincoln steams toward San Diego following a record 10-month deployment. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
  • A man plays piano in one of the palaces of ousted Iraq President Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Saturday May 3, 2003, as others loot the palace. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
  • FILE - Captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein undergoes medical examinations in Baghdad in this Dec. 14, 2003 file photo, in this image from television. (AP Photo/US Military via APTN, File)
  • Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as charred and mutilated bodies of U.S. contractors hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in this March 31, 2004 file photo. A lawsuit filed in 2005, filed by the families of the four slain employees of security contractor Blackwater USA, accuses the company of failing to provide the security guards with the appropriate equipment _ such as armored vehicles or even a map. After years of appeals and legal maneuvering, Blackwater has successfully steered a wrongful death lawsuit into private arbitration. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
  • This is an image obtained by The Associated Press which shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on his head and wires attatched to him in late 2003 at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)
  • This video image released by Iraqi state television shows Saddam Hussein's guards wearing ski masks and placing a noose around the deposed leader's neck moments before his execution Saturday Dec. 30. 2006. Clutching a Quran and refusing a hood, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows before sunrise Saturday, executed by vengeful countrymen after a quarter-century of remorseless brutality that killed countless thousands and led Iraq into disastrous wars against the United States and Iran. (AP Photo/IRAQI TV, HO)
  • **FILE** Army Spc. Michael D. Rivera's brother Lance Cpl. Alfredo Rivera, right, and cousins Spc. Edward Rivera, center, and Carlos Figueroa take a moment to mourn over his coffin during his burial service in this Wednesday, March 21, 2007 file photo at Greenwood cemetery in New York. Rivera died March 7 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle during combat operations. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
  • An Iraqi soldier stands guard as a pipeline burns in the background after an explosion 30 kilometers (20 miles) northeast of Tikrit, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Bassem Daham)
  • In this March 25, 2008 file photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chad Caldwell, 24, from Spokane, Wash., plays golf as his comrades from K Troop, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, look on at Combat Outpost Rabiy in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo/FILE)
  • In this June 25, 2008 file photo, a female police officer aims with her pistol in a shooting range, during a graduation ceremony in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Some 115 police woman graduated from Karbala's police academy. (AP Photo/ Ahmed Alhussainey/FILE)
  • In this undated photo provided by Capt. Nolan Gordon, an Iraqi youngster gathers for a photo with former Army football player Capt. Nolan Gordon in Diyarha Iraq. Like most of the men who played in the 2001 Army-Navy game, Gordon went on to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan _ or both _ during the 10 years that followed the most deadly terrorist attack on U.S. (AP Photo/Courtesy Capt. Nolan Gordon)
  • FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2008 file image made from APTN video, Iraqi reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi throws a shoe at President George W. Bush during a news conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Malik in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Zeidi was released from a Baghdad prison Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009, his brother said. (AP Photo/APTN, File)
  • FILE - This Aug. 29, 2009 file photo shows Iraqis walking past destroyed cars after a massive bomb attack in front of the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq. The country is moving toward some level of stability. But it came only after years that pushed Iraq perilously close to civil war between the Sunnis who lost power after Saddam's fall and the majority Shiites who took control of the aftermath. The tallies: more than 4,350 U.S. soldiers dead; at least 87,500 Iraqi civilians killed, according to government figures. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2009 file photo, an Iraqi national police officer escorts a man detained in a raid that netted a large cache of weapons north of Baghdad, Iraq. A leaked U.S. diplomatic memo says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accused Iran and Syria of arming insurgents in September 2009. The memo, which was recently posted on the WikiLeaks website, quotes al-Maliki as telling then-U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill that five Shiite militants had been captured trying to smuggle missiles in the false floor of a Toyota Land Cruiser. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)
  • In this image from the Iraq TV station Al Iraqiyah TV, showing Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, at an undisclosed location and thought to be shortly before he was hanged in Iraq Monday Jan. 25, 2010. It is announced Monday that Al-Majid was executed after he received his fourth death sentence for the Halabja poison gas attack in 1988 that killed some 5,000 people and earned him the chilling moniker
  • In this image from Iraq TV station Al Iraqiyah TV, which is thought to show the scene moments before the death of Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical ALi, who was hanged Monday Jan. 25, 2010, at an undisclosed location. It is announced Monday that Al-Majid was executed after he received his fourth death sentence for the Halabja poison gas attack in 1988 that killed some 5,000 people and earned him the chilling moniker
  • In this Aug. 25, 2010 file photo, Janet Allegra, of Ellington, hugs her son Spc. John Allegra IV at the Army aviation support facility in Windsor Locks, Conn. About 110 soldiers of the 250th Engineer Co. Connecticut National Guard who were deployed to Iraq last winter have returned home. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
  • FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2010 file photo, an Iraqi girl wears bandages after being injured in a bombing in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Frequent bombings, assassinations and a resurgence in violence by Shiite militias have made Iraq more dangerous now than it was just a year ago, a U.S. government watchdog concludes in a report released Saturday, July 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini, File)
  • Marine Sgt. Rob Jones, 25, of Lovettsville, Va., listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2011. Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the military's flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care for more than a century, is closing its doors. Hundreds of thousands of the nation's war wounded from World War I to today have received treatment at Walter Reed, including 18,000 troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
  • U.S. Army Lt. Christopher Chavez, 28, from Sacramento, Calif., center, and Staff Sgt. Michael Snyder, left, 35, from Glendale, Ariz., of D Co., 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, search a Saddam Hussein-era military vehicle graveyard outside Contingency Operating Site Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
  • Cpt. Brian Fielder, commander of the Rhode Island National Guard's 1207th support company hugs his son Hoah, 19 months, upon his return from a one year deployment in Kuwait, where his unit oversaw security for convoys moving in and out of Iraq, in North Kingstown, RI., Friday afternoon, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
 

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