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Iraqi girls pull their hands to get a candy from U..S. Army Spc. Cleveland Carr of Bravo company, 2-502 infantry regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in a school downtown Mosul,  Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003. Soldiers of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division dispensed writing materials, collected by some American families and churches, among the children in one of the girl's school. AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

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Head of the U.S. congressional delegation, Jim Saxton, R- N.J., left, speaks to commander of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, right, at an airbase in Mosul, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2003. Members of congress met with officers of the Iraqi police and armed forces as well as with U.S. military officials. AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

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U..S. Army 2nd Lt. Matthew Thompson of the Bravo company, 2-502 infantry regiment, 101st Airborne Division, shows a pencil to Iraqi girls in a school downtown Mosul, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003. Soldiers of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division dispensed writing materials, collected by some American families and churches, among the children in one of the girl's school. AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

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Iraqi girls hold one another as they stand in a queue looking at U..S. Army Ssg. Shawn Bass, of Bravo company, 2-502 infantry regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in a school downtown Mosul, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003. Soldiers of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division dispensed writing materials, collected by some American families and churches, among the children in one of the girl's school. AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

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Iraqi girl gets a writing-book from U..S. Army Ssg. Michael Ament, right, of the Bravo company, 2-502 infantry regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in a school downtown Mosul,  Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003. Soldiers of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division dispensed writing materials, collected by some American families and churches, among the children in one of the girl's school. AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

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U..S. Army 2nd Lt. Matthew Thompson, of Bravo company, 2-502 infantry regiment, 101st Airborne Division, stands in a classroom in a school downtown Mosul, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003. Soldiers of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division dispensed writing materials, collected by some American families and churches, among the children in one of the girl's school. AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

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Soldiers and officers of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division stay in formations during a graduation ceremony for Air Assault course at the Q-west airbase near the village of Al-Gyarra, some, 350 kms (220 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq , Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003. AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

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Soldiers and officers of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division listen to the national anthem during a graduation ceremony for Air Assault course at the Q-west airbase near the village of Al-Gyarra, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003. AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

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US soldiers foot patrol the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, October 14, 2003. US forces have captured a suspected top leader of Ansar al-Islam in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in a significant blow to a militant Islamic group believed to be plotting attacks in Iraq. AFP/File/Joseph Barrak