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An Iraqi prisoner speaks to Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Kareem Khalaf while he escorts the news media on a tour of the National Police detention center in northwest Baghdad.

Iraqi detention

( Karim Kadim / Associated Press / July 17, 2007 )

An Iraqi prisoner speaks to Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Kareem Khalaf while he escorts the news media on a tour of the National Police detention center in northwest Baghdad.

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