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U.S. Army soldiers and Iraqi national policemen sit inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying toward the objective during a joint air assault operation planned and led by the Iraqi army and police in the Ma'dain area east of Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2009.

U.S. Army soldiers and Iraqi national policemen sit inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying toward the objective during a joint air assault operation planned and led by the Iraqi army and police in the Ma'dain area east of Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2009.

U.S. Army soldiers and Iraqi national policemen sit inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying toward the objective during a joint air assault operation planned and led by the Iraqi army and police in the Ma'dain area east of Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2009.

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