The Year in Images

Pictures of the Year Best Photographs Pictures Time Magazine U.S. soldiers shield a wounded comrade from debris kicked up by a rescue helicopter in Qubah, Iraq.
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U.S. soldiers shield a wounded comrade from debris kicked up by a rescue helicopter in Qubah, Iraq.

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