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July 13, 2009
Posted: 925 GMT
![]() MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images. Iraqi children perform hand-stands at a gymnasium on the outskirts of the southern city of Karbala, some 110 kms from Baghdad, on July 12, 2009. The club, which is popular during the summer school holidays, is frequented by boys and girls, providing gymnastic lessons to children and teenagers up to the ages of 19-years-old.
![]() MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images. An Iraqi child rubs chalk on his hands as a coach helps another child performing on parallel bars at a gymnasium on the outskirts of the southern city of Karbala, some 110 kms from Baghdad, on July 12, 2009.
![]() MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images. An Iraqi youth trains at a gymnasium on the outskirts of the southern city of Karbala, some 110 kms from Baghdad, on July 12, 2009.
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