Police decorate police vehicles in preparation for the hand over of the Anbar province in Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad, August 31, 2008. U.S. troops will on September 1 hand over control of Iraq 's Anbar province, once the heart of a bloody Sunni Arab insurgency, reflecting a dramatic drop in violence across the country, an Iraqi official said on Thursday. REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ)
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