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Sameer Al-Haddad, receivership secretariat and representative to the Iraqi prime minister, and U.S. Army Capt. Timothy Stephenson, commander of the172nd Division's Battery C, 1st Battalion, 77th Regiment, commemorate the signing of Joint Security Station Aziziyah, Iraq, from the U.S. Army to the Iraqi Army, June 23, 2009.

UNDER IRAQI CONTROL

Sameer Al-Haddad, receivership secretariat and representative to the Iraqi prime minister, and U.S. Army Capt. Timothy Stephenson, commander of the172nd Division's Battery C, 1st Battalion, 77th Regiment, commemorate the signing of Joint Security Station Aziziyah, Iraq, from the U.S. Army to the Iraqi Army, June 23, 2009.

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