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Iraq ten years

Updated: 2013-03-29 15:36
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Iraq ten years
Iraqi boys play football in an empty street in central Baghdad, 21 June 2006. Despite the bombings, kidnappings and killings, power blackouts and fuel shortages, passion for the game endures in a country that used to be a dominant regional force in the sport and qualified for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. [Photo/icpress]
Iraq ten years
A bodyguard of Paul Bremer, US top civil administrator in Iraq, secures Baghdad's indoor Olympic Hall as Iraqi wrestlers train in the background 05 February 2004. Bremer announced that the Iraqi wrestling team will fly to the United States to train at the US Olympic facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bremer reconfirmed a June 30 deadline for the transfer of political power to an Iraqi authority. [Photo/icpress]
Iraq ten years
TO GO WITH STORY:``LIFESTYLE` `IRAQ` `WOMEN` `FENCING`` Disabled Iraqi fencing players Nadia Ali Abdel Karim (front) and Wafa Jadwal train at al` `Wissam club in Baghdad 11 December 2004. Twelve disabled women are currently taking part in nine different sports at the club, and four of them have chosen fencing. [Photo/icpress]
Iraq ten years
Iraqi Imad al` `Din Ahmad (L) of the Ramadi Future boxing club tumbles as he celebrates his win over Mohammed Laith of Hitt during the final heat of the Anbar provincial boxing league in the western town of Ramadi some 100 kms from Baghdad on February 12, 2009. The winner will represent Anbar in boxing matches in other provinces. This is the first time in 30 years, when boxing was introduced as a sport in Iraq, that such a match has been held in the town of Ramadi. [Photo/icpress]
Iraq ten years
Iraqi girls play during a female youth soccer tournament in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 13, 2008. [Photo/icpress]

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