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PRESIDENT BUSH MEETS WITH KURDISAN'S REGIONAL PRESIDENT BARZANI

President George W. Bush (R) gestures to Masoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Regional Government of Kurdistan, during a meeting in the Oval Office, Tuesday 25 October 2005. Bush noted that Barzani, who was wearing Kurdistani national dress, would have been killed for such a thing during the rule of Saddam Hussein. (UPI Photo/Mike Theiler/Pool)

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