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             English: A massive  dust storm cloud ( haboob) is close to enveloping a military camp as it rolls over Al Asad,  Iraq, just before nightfall on April 27, 2005. DoD photo by Corporal Alicia M. Garcia, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released) 
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              US Defense website  http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=6469, Alternate source:  U.S. Navy NewsStand Photo ID 050427-M-5607G-001 | 
          
          
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           Corporal Alicia M. Garcia, U.S. Marine Corps. | 
          
         
         
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