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Sunni radicals with the Islamic State of Iraq have demanded that Iraqi shopkeepers in Mosul cover the faces of all mannequins. (Associated Press)

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An Iraqi nun speaks with a Christian man who fled with his family from the Christian villages near Mosul at a school that was turned into a shelter for displaced Christian families, in Ainkawa, a suburb of Irbil, Iraq. The Islamic State group gave Mosul's Christians until midday Saturday to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death. (Associated Press)

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A happy face smiles back from the scope of a U.S. Army sniper's rifle, during a mission searching for insurgents in Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 22, 2004. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan) ** FILE **

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Displaced Iraqi Christian girls who fled with their parents from the Christian village near Mosul province in Iraq, play by their balloons at a temporary shelter for the displaced Christian families in Ankawa, a suburb of Irbil, with a majority Christian population, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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** FILE ** In this Monday, June 16, 2014, file photo, demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as they carry al Qaeda flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

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Iraqis who have fled the violence in their hometown of Mosul unload their car at Khazir refugee camp outside of Irbil, 217 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. (associated press)