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Ahmad al-Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress and a member of the Iraqi United Alliance, gestures during the Iraqi National Assembly sessionin the heavily fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday March 29, 2005. The Assembly held its ...
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Interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer arrives at the opening session of Iraq's National Assembly in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 16, 2005. Iraq's first freely elected parliament in half a century began its
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