Iraqi flags fly in the wind as US soldiers leave Al-Fao palace at Camp Victory, one of the last US bases Iraq, after a special ceremony in Baghdad on December 1, 2011. The United States handed over to Iraqi control the sprawling Victory Base Complex near Baghdad, the main base from which the US war in Iraq was run, a US military spokesman said on December 2, 2011.
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