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Iraq ten years

Updated: 2013-03-29 15:36
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Iraq ten years
Kirkuk team player Abbas Mohammed (L) tries to block a pass against Nassiriyah team player Jassim Jaber during their match at the Shaab indoor arena in central Baghdad, on July 30, 2009. Nassiriyah won 17` `11. Eight teams from across Iraq came to play in the national disabled basketball finals in Baghdad. [Photo/icpress]
Iraq ten years
An Iraqi child stretches on a mat at a gymnasium on the outskirts of the southern city of Karbala, some 110 kms from Baghdad, on July 12, 2009. The club, which is popular during the summer school holidays, is frequented by boys and girls, providing gymnastic lessons to children and teenagers up to the ages of 19` `years` `old. [Photo/icpress]

Iraq ten years
An Iraqi father and his son enjoy splashing in a swimming pool in the Salhiyeh district of Baghdad on June 6, 2008. It costs 3 US dollars to enter the bathing area for a maximum of two hours. There a few places the youth of Baghdad can have fun. Most parks and play grounds are closed or too dangerous to enter and playing on the streets is also not safe due to the inter` `sectarian violence and explosions. [Photo/icpress]
Iraq ten years
An Iraqi plays table tennis as US soldiers from Bravo company, 1st Battallion, 38 regiment infantry patrol at a market area in Baquba, north of Baghdad, 03 December 2007. US military prisons in Iraq hold around 2,000 Al` `Qaeda militants, mostly locals, detained in security operations across the battered country, US general Major General Douglas Stone said today. [Photo/icpress]

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