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. 2009 Oct 27;181(9):576–578. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.109-3035

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An Iraqi policewoman raises an AK-47 as she celebrates the withdrawal of US troops on June 30. Since 2003, about 118 members of medical faculties in Iraq have been murdered in what some believe is a systematic effort to decimate secular, scientifically trained elites.