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Arash Karami

Arash Karami

Jun 12, 2014

A man displays Iraqi army body armour in front of an Iraqi army vehicle and other items of military kit, at the Kukjali Iraqi Army checkpoint, some 10km of east of the northern city of Mosul, on June 11, 2014, the day after Sunni militants iincluding fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) overran the city. Half a million people were estimated to have fled Iraq's second largest city, as Islamist militants tightened their grip after overrunning it and a swathe of other territory, patro — A man displays Iraqi army body armor in front of an Iraqi military vehicle and other items of military kit at the Kukjali Iraqi army checkpoint near Mosul, June 11, 2014. — SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images

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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - UNDATED: (FILE PHOTO) Former former Baath official and deputy to deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (C) is shown in this 1999 photograph in Baghdad, Iraq. Arab television network Al Jazeera played an audio tape March 27, 2006 purportedly from al-Douri, in which he urges Arab leaders to boycott Iraq's government and recognizes the resistance. (Photo by Salah Malkawi/Getty Images)

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Burnt vehicles are seen during clashes between Iraqi security forces and al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, June 10, 2014. Radical Sunni Muslim insurgents seized control of most of Iraq's second largest city of Mosul early on Tuesday, overrunning a military base and freeing hundreds of prisoners in a spectacular strike against the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR3T3UD

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