Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar al-Zibari speaks to reporters after the opening ceremony of the Iraqi National Conference in Baghdad Aug. 15, 2004. The conference came under intense security and a curfew in parts of Baghdad, where about 1,300 delegates from Iraq's political and religious factions gathered in the heavily fortified Green Zone compound housing the Iraqi interim government and the US and British embassies to pick a 100-member national council.
Iraqi women talk with each other at the National Conference in Baghdad Aug. 15, 2004. The conference, opened on Sunday, came under intense security and a curfew in parts of Baghdad, where about 1,300 delegates from Iraq's political and religious factions gathered in the heavily fortified Green Zone compound housing the Iraqi interim government and the US and British embassies to pick a 100-member national council.
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