A wounded Iraqi soldier is helped by a U.S. soldier (L) from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment and another Iraqi soldier at the site where an explosive device went of inside a house during security operations in Diyala province August 8, 2008. From the slaughter of children to edicts against suggestively shaped vegetables, al Qaeda's brutality and its imposition of severe Islamic laws have been crucial to its decline in Iraq. Picture taken August 8. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (IRAQ)
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