Delegates listen to remarks at the opening of the US-sponsored meeting
on post-war Iraq 15 April, 2003 at the Tallil Air Base, north of
Nasiriyah, in the southern Iraqi desert. The United States convened a
meeting of Iraqi opposition groups for the first time since Saddam
Hussein's fall to spell out its vision of the initial steps for Iraq's
future. REUTERS/Tim Sloan/POOL

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