FILE - In this file photo taken on Sept. 27, 2009, file, Haidar Talib, a member of a militant group called Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous, embraces his 4-year-old son Mustafa as he is released from U.S. military custody in Baghdad, Iraq. The wave of attacks by al-Qaida and Sunni extremists that has killed thousands of Iraqis in 2013 so far, most of them Shiites, is provoking ominous calls from Shiite leaders to take up arms in self-defense. Iraq's Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, said he wants American help in quelling the violence. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
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