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A soldier stands among burned vehicles at the scene of an explosion at the Habaybna Restaurant in a predominantly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in northern Baghdad on Monday. Four people died and 113 were injured when a car bomb detonated in the restaurant’s parking lot. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye, Agence France-Presse)


A soldier guards the site of a fatal car-bombing at the Habaybna Restaurant in Baghdad on Monday. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye, Agence France-Presse)


Darius Peterson III, right, gives the thumbs-up to his dad, Maj. Darius Peterson, after receiving his diploma from Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Ga., on Saturday. Maj. Peterson and fellow 3rd Infantry Division soldiers watched the ceremony via video teleconference from Iraq. ( Lewis Levine / The (Hinesville, Ga.) Coastal Courier / AP)


An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the ‘Jolly Rogers’ of Strike Fighter Squadron One Zero Three (VFA-103), flown by a crew assigned to the ‘Gladiators’ of Strike Fighter Squadron One Zero Six (VFA-106), climbs into the sky after performing a slow-speed pass in front of the crowd at the 2005 Joint Service Open House at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The open house took place during the weekend of May 20-22. (Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain / U.S. Navy)


An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the ‘Jolly Rogers’ of Strike Fighter Squadron One Zero Three (VFA-103) performs the ‘dirty roll’ maneuver shortly after takeoff during a flight demonstration at the 2005 Joint Service Open House at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain / U.S. Navy)


Staff Sgt. Katrina Haynie, crew chief from Delaware Air National Guard, inspects a wing and the engines on a C-130 during a post-landing check at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base in southern Uzbekistan on Saturday. A week after violence erupted in the eastern part of the former Soviet republic, troops at the isolated U.S. air base in the country’s south said their operations had not been threatened by the unrest. They praised their Uzbek counterparts for providing good security. (Shad Eidson, U.S. Air Force / AP)

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