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Police officers inspect a damaged vehicle at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad February 19, 2012. A suicide car bomber killed 19 police officers and cadets on Sunday in an attack on a crowd outside Baghdad police academy, police and hospital sources... View Photo »
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A police officer stands guard at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad February 19, 2012. A suicide car bomber killed 19 police officers and cadets on Sunday in an attack on a crowd outside Baghdad police academy, police and hospital sources said. View Photo »
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A burnt vehicle is pulled away from the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad February 19, 2012. A suicide car bomber killed 19 police officers and cadets on Sunday in an attack on a crowd outside Baghdad police academy, police and hospital sources said. View Photo »
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Security forces prepare to tow away a destroyed car after a car bomb attack outside the fortified academy near the Interior Ministry headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. A suicide bomber detonated his car as a group of police recruits... View Photo »
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Followers of the ancient Sabaean Mandean religious sect pray on the banks of the Tigris river in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. View Photo »
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A police officer stands guard near his wounded comrade after a bomb attack, at a hospital in Baghdad February 19, 2012. A suicide car bomber killed at least 12 people in the attack at a checkpoint near a police training academy in northeastern Baghdad... View Photo »
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A worker serves meals to customers at a restaurant in Baghdad February 19, 2012. View Photo »
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People display burned copies of religious books and Qurans, by the al-Hijaz Mosque in the southern port city of Um Qasr, 600 kilometers. (372 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. Iraqi investigators said a Shiite mosque that was... View Photo »
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Residents visit a statue of the Lion of Babylon near Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad February 17, 2012. Picture taken February 17, 2012. View Photo »
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Residents visit a replica of the Ishtar Gate of Ancient Babylon near Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad February 17, 2012. Picture taken February 17, 2012. View Photo »
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Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and U.N. special envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler speaks at a news conference in Baghdad February 18, 2012. Iraq evacuated an initial batch of 400 Iranian dissidents on Saturday from a base... View Photo »
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A general view shows the former U.S military Camp Liberty which will be the new temporary camp for the Iranian Mujahideen Khalq Organisation (MKO) in Baghdad, February 17, 2012. View Photo »
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An Iraqi soldier walks inside the refectory of the former U.S military Camp Liberty which will be the new temporary camp for the Iranian Mujahideen Khalq Organisation (MKO) in Baghdad, February 17, 2012. View Photo »
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A member of Iranian exile group People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran leave Camp Ashraf in Khalis, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Iraqi government started moving some 3,300 members of the group from Camp Ashraf, where they have... View Photo »
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A view shows Iraqi security guards protecting the former U.S military Camp Liberty which will be the new temporary camp for the Iranian Mujahideen Khalq Organisation (MKO) in Baghdad, February 17, 2012. View Photo »
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An Iraqi soldier inspects prefabricated houses at the former US military base Camp Liberty, which will be the new temporary home of exiled Iranian opposition members, near Baghdad's international airport on February 17, 2012. The first group of Iranian... View Photo »
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A general view shows former US military base Camp Liberty, which will be the new temporary home of exiled Iranian opposition members, near Baghdad's international airport on February 17, 2012. The first group of Iranian exiles will leave Camp Ashraf in... View Photo »
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In this photograph made on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, rows of housing containers formerly occupied by the US military are seen at Baghdad, airport. Iraqi government plans to move here some 3,300 members of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, who... View Photo »
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Residents demonstrate under a giant Syrian national flag in support of the uprising in Syria, after Friday prayers in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad February 17, 2012. View Photo »
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Demonstrators shout slogans as they wave Syrian independence flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, after Friday prayers in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad February 17, 2012. View Photo »
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Baghdad (Arabic بغداد Baġdād) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. It is the second-largest city in southwest Asia (after Tehran) and the second-largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo). With an estimated population of seven million, it is the largest city in Iraq. Full Article
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