Iraqi women and children wait outside their house during a U.S Army
operation "Lockdown" in the village of Aswan outside the town of Baquba
in central Iraq, December 3, 2003. Soldiers of 4th Infantry Division (
Task Force Ironhorse ) searched more then 500 houses in the village
looking for weapons and members of a suspected cell who attacked
coalition forces. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov REUTERS

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