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The newly restored Sultan Saqi Shrine, saved by the joint efforts of American and Iraqi airmen, sits at the far end of an Iraqi cemetery located on Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq, May 27, 2009. The team was able to restore the shrine and an adjacent building in time for the first visit by descendents of those buried in the cemetery and Iraqi civic and religious leaders in decades.

RESTORED SHRINE

The newly restored Sultan Saqi Shrine, saved by the joint efforts of American and Iraqi airmen, sits at the far end of an Iraqi cemetery located on Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq, May 27, 2009. The team was able to restore the shrine and an adjacent building in time for the first visit by descendents of those buried in the cemetery and Iraqi civic and religious leaders in decades.

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