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An Iraqi Shiite man talks to another through a hole in a cloth screen outside a mosque in Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, during Friday prayers Feb. 11, 2005. Holes are cut into the cloth screen in order for the wind to pass freely.

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An Iraqi Shiite man talks to another through a hole in a cloth screen outside a mosque in Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, during Friday prayers Feb. 11, 2005. Holes are cut into the cloth screen in order for the wind to pass freely.
© 2005 Joao Silva

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