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A Kurdish Peshmerga, center, stands guard with an Iraqi policeman, left, and an Iraqi Army soldier, right, on their first patrol together as the Combined Security Force on the outskirts of Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. Also known as the Golden Lions, the security force is deployed along the ethnic line between Kurds and Arabs in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)