Iraqi policemen deploy in the Wadi al-Salam cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Iraqi police deployed in the cemetery Friday to counter the threat of bomb attacks, as Shiite pilgrims from southern Iraq visit to pray over the graves of relatives, on their way to the Shabaniyah festival in Karbala which climaxes over the weekend and marks the birth of Mohammed al-Mahdi, the 12th Shiite imam who disappeared in the 9th century.
(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
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