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A soldier with the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division searches an abandoned house during a cordon and search in the Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, on June 21, 2007.

A soldier searches an abandoned house.

A soldier with the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division searches an abandoned house during a cordon and search in the Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, on June 21, 2007.

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