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An Iraqi soldier escorts arrested suspected al-Qaida members in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 18, 2007. In a dawn raid in Baqouba Iraqi army arrested 36 and killed four suspected al-Qaida members in Baqouba Monday. (AP Photo/Talal Mohammed)
May 13, 2007. A U.S. military helicopter opened fire at a family sleeping on their rooftop, killing a mother and two children and injuring two other children, Iraqi police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Can't bear to look : An Iraqi medic treats a wounded man as his mother looks away at a hospital in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, north of Baghdad.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)
NEUSTADT, GERMANY - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday displayed relief over the killing in Iraq of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The German leader said it was "good news" that al-Zarqawi could no longer be the "instigator of inhuman attacks," she said Thursday at a swearing-in ceremony of the German army.
Al-Zarqawi was one of the most dangerous people within the al- Qaeda terrorist network, she said. (DPA)
The coffin of slain Italian soldier Alessandro Pibiri is carried during his funeral service in Rome's St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica, Friday, June 9, 2006. Government and top military officials attended a state funeral Friday for Pibiri, killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq earlier this week. (Ap Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Compared to...
Relatives mourn at the funeral of one of those killed when a parked car bomb struck a police patrol killing five people and wounding 14 on Saturday night, according to police, in the Karradah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, June 11, 2006. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)Two very, very different cultures, the West versus Arabic Islam...
A man steers his homemade cart down the street in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil April 25, 2006. The Kurds are pressing for power under a federal system when the new Iraqi government is formed and control of Kirkuk, a city just outside Kurdistan that has some of Iraq's richest oil reserves and which is claimed by Kurds, Turkish-speaking Turkmen and Arabs alike. Picture taken April 25, 2006. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari
