Noticias Irak

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY KARIN ZEITVOGEL.Four years after they last saw each other, former US Army captain Luis Montalvan (R) embraces Ali Salah, an Iraqi who served as an interpreter for US troops at the start of the Iraq war, in the Jordanian capital Amman on August 5, 2008. Salah was forced to flee Iraq two years ago because of his connections with the US armyand Montalvan was in Amman on a mission for an association set up by US veterans of the Iraq war to help Iraqi refugees. AFP PHOTO/STR -- EDITORS NOTE: Ali Salah requested not to use his real name or show his face in the picture -- (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

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A military Humbee displaying the Georgian flag drives along a road in the town of Kut, 175 kilometers (109 miles) southeast of Baghdad on August 9, 2008. After five years of fighting Shiite militias and Al-Qaeda insurgents in Iraq, 2,000 Georgian troops are packing up to fly home where a new war awaits them with neighboring Russia. AFP PHOTO/ALI YUSSEF (Photo credit should read ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images)

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Haidar Nozad and Hussein Jebur (R) of Iraq take part in the men's double scull heat 2 rowing competition during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at Shunyi Olympic Rowing Park August 9, 2008. Haidar Nozad saw his childhood dream of competing in the Olympics come true on Saturday despite years of coping with the daily violence, curfews and military-imposed river restrictions brought by the war in Iraq. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (CHINA)

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US Air Force MQ-1 Predator aircraft is shown at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, Calif. in a Wednesday June 25, 2008 photo. The air national guardsmen who fly Predator drones over Iraq are fighting a war from the safety of Southern California, but confronting some of the same wartime stresses as their comrades on the battlefield. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Col. Charles W. Manley, California Air National Guard, Commander of the 163d Maintenance Group,163d Reconnaissance Wing pilots a training simulator for the U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator, at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, Calif. in a Wednesday June 25, 2008 photo. The air national guardsmen who fly Predator drones over Iraq are fighting a war from the safety of Southern California, but confronting some of the same wartime stresses as their comrades on the battlefield. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Military personnel adjust the placement of the US Air Force MQ-1 Predator aircraft at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, Calif., June 25, 2008. The air national guardsmen who fly Predator drones over Iraq are fighting a war from the safety of Southern California, but confronting some of the same wartime stresses as their comrades on the battlefield. Working in an air-conditioned trailer nicknamed the Dumpster, occasionally unleashing missiles on enemy fighters. Then their eight-hour shifts are done and they merge onto Interstate 215 and blend into the suburbs. For the growing number of air national guardsmen involved in unmanned combat missions, it can be a whiplashing daily transition, and one that is taking a toll on a few of them. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Donna Carlson, a Republican who ran against John McCain in a Congressional representative race in 1982, poses with some of her old campaign material Friday, April 11, 2008, in Mesa, Ariz. Carlson was one of three candidates who lost to McCain in his first congressional race. Carlson, who finished last in that Republican primary, doesn't plan to vote for McCain in November because she feels he has focused too much on the war in Iraq and hasn't offered concrete answers to the country's problems. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Donna Carlson, a Republican who ran against John McCain in a Congressional representative race in 1982, poses with some of her old campaign material Friday, April 11, 2008, in Mesa, Ariz. Carlson was one of three candidates who lost to McCain in his first congressional race. Carlson, who finished last in that Republican primary, doesn't plan to vote for McCain in November because she feels he has focused too much on the war in Iraq and hasn't offered concrete answers to the country's problems. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Iraqi girl scouts (back) observe a female US soldier tug-of-war-team during an activity day at the pool of the US embassy, a former palace of Saddam Hussein, in the heavily protected Green Zone in Baghdad on August 2, 2008. The US military said today it has freed more than 10,000 people from its two detention centres in Iraq so far this year -- more than the 8,900 released the during the whole of 2007. AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI (Photo credit should read ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images)

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People fish in the polluted Tigris River in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 31, 2008. The recent decline in violence in Baghdad has raised hopes that attention can shift to repairs on critical public services that have been crippled by war and neglect. Perhaps the most complex: trying to control what flows into waterways and what comes out of Baghdad taps. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

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