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Iraqi police commandos man a checkpoint along the airport highway following the groundbreaking ceremony of the road's improvement project on July 5, 2008. Baghdad's airport road was one of the most dangerous highways in the Iraqi capital following the US-led invasion in 2003, with numerous car bombs and suicide attacks occuring until the middle of 2007 when violence started to ebb following a US military troop surge. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE

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