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Shopkeepers set up a satellite dish.
Shopkeepers set up a satellite dish outside a store in the center of Mosul, northern Iraq on Sunday, April, 20, 2003. Public display or private ownership of satellite television was forbidden under the regime of Saddam Hussein, forcing Iraqis to rely only on state-run tv for news.

©AP/Wide World Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian

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