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Reuters Photo: Reuters journalist Ali al-Mashhadani (R), a television cameraman, embraces a colleague in Baghdad January 15,...

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Among Mashhadani's recent stories was reporting from the town of Haditha in March.

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There are probably about 100,000 al-Mashhadanis in Iraq. It isn't a surname, it's the name of the place where they're from -- like Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti...