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Aug 8 2009, Michael Kerjman

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U.S. soldiers stand near a hole that damaged the roof of the BBC headquarters in Baghdad after a rocket attack Friday, May 9, 2008. A rocket hit the BBC office in Baghdad on Friday but no one was wounded in the attack, the British broadcaster said.