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Iraqis Plan for U.S. Troops to Leave

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• Aug. 2: A U.S. army soldier patrols a marketplace in northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraq.
• Aug. 7: A U.S. army soldier attached to Palehorse Troop, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, communicates a sign to his colleagues while on a patrol in the village of Baaya, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, in Iraq's Diyala province. Two Iraqi officials say the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later.
• Aug. 7: U.S. army soldiers attached to Palehorse Troop, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, take a nap in the back of a Stryker armored vehicle in the village of Baaya, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, in Iraq's Diyala province. Two Iraqi officials say the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later.
• July 28: U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Platoon, G Troop, Task Force 1-35, 2nd Brigade Combat Team move out on patrol in search of weapons caches with an attachment of Iraqi Army soldiers during Operation Iron Pursuit in 7 Nissan village, Diyala province, Iraq.
• Aug. 7: Sattar Jaafar, 41, operates a loom as he and his family try to make a living by hand-weaving rugs in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq. A report Tuesday by the U.S. General Accounting Office predicted Iraq could finish the year with as much as a $79 billion cumulative budget surplus.
• Aug. 7: Iraqi boys play table-football in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008.
• Aug. 6: An Iraqi man waits for his hands to be unbound by an Iraqi police officer after being released from U.S. military custody in the Dora area of southern Baghdad, Iraq. Seven prisoners were released from Camp Bucca on Wednesday.
• Aug. 6: Prisoners wait for their hands to be unbound by Iraqi police officers after being released from U.S. military custody in the Dora area of southern Baghdad, Iraq. Seven prisoners were released from Camp Bucca on Wednesday.