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Smoke fills the air after a car bomb was detonated in the parking lot of an Iraqi police station outside the gate of the Green Zone near the Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 4, 2004. Coalition and Iraqi forces rushed to the scene to help the wounded and put out the fires.

Smoke fills the air after a car bomb was detonated.

Smoke fills the air after a car bomb was detonated in the parking lot of an Iraqi police station outside the gate of the Green Zone near the Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 4, 2004. Coalition and Iraqi forces rushed to the scene to help the wounded and put out the fires.

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