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US soldiers with A company 4th Battallion 9th Infantry Regiment 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team detain members of the Concerned Local Citizens (CLC), supsected of making suicide belts and recruiting suicide bombers, after a raid in Baquba, on March 05, 2008. The US army adopted a new strategy in Iraq since September 2006, to recruit Iraqi agents, known as Concerned Local Citizens (CLC), to fight against Al-Qaeda in their communities. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ




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