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Happy New Year
 U. S. Army Sgt. Carlos Llanes, left, and Spc. Koki Lane celebrate New Year's Eve dancing to salsa music during a party thrown for soldiers of the 101st Airborne division Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003 at their base in Mosul, Iraq. Llanes is from Miami, Fla. and Lane is from Gresham, Ore. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)  Required to have his weapon with him at all times except during physical training, U. S. Army Pvt. First Class Michael Varga waits, with his M-4 rifle, for the clock to strike midnight and the new year while attending a party for the soldiers of the 101st Airborne division Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003 at their base in Mosul, Iraq. Varga, from Chicago, is with the 18th Airborne long range surveillance corps. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)  An M-4 rifle belonging to a soldier with the 101st Airborne division rests on a table amidst New Year's Eve celebration party favors during a party thrown Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003 at the division's base in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)  U.S. Army Sgt. Ben Press of Traverse City, Mich., right, blows a horn while celebrating New Year's Eve with Sgt. Karl McCarn, left, and Spc. Terry Ludwick, center in green hat, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003 at their base in Mosul, Iraq. The three soldiers are with the 1438 Engineer unit of the 101st Airborne division. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)  U.S. Army soldier plays pool in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, now converted into a recreation center, at a military base during a New Year's Eve party, in Tikrit, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)  U.S. Army soldiers dance inside one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, now converted into a recreation center, at a military base during a New Year's Eve party, in Tikrit, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)  U.S. soldiers dance during the New Year's Eve party at the recreation center of the main U.S. army barracks in the Iraqi town of Tikrit, some 250 km north of Baghdad, December 31, 2003. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk  A U.S. Army soldier holds a baby on top of a Humvee during a New Year's Eve party for orphans and poor children in a suburb of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, December 31, 2003. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra  A young boy feeds a U.S. Army soldier during a New Year's Eve party for orphans and poor children, in a suburb of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, December 31, 2003. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra  A U.S. Army soldier fits a wool hat on a boy during a New Year's Eve party for orphans and poor children, in a suburb of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, December 31, 2003. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
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