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Iraq Bans Contractor
The Iraqi government announced that it revoked the license of Blackwater USA after the American security company was involved in a shootout in Baghdad that killed at least nine people. The incident highlighted the murky legal space that private foreign security contractors occupy in Iraq.
(Blackwater contractors secure site of a roadside bomb explosion in Baghdad. -- AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Private Armies
Security contractors fight a parallel and largely hidden war in Iraq.

Iraq's Rising Power
Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement has become the strongest force in Iraq after the United States.
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A Neighborhood Divided
Sectarian violence in Baghdad has encroached into the city's Tobji neighborhood, where Sunnis and Shiites lived for decades side by side in peace.
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Iraq's Legislature
Iraq installs its first permanent and freely elected legislature in decades.
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Inside the Green Zone
The Post's Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports on life inside Iraq's Green Zone in Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
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Saddam Hussein
Former dictator was hanged Dec. 30, 2006, after an Iraqi tribunal found him guilty of crimes against humanity.
Abu Ghraib
Special report chronicles prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison.
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