An Iraqi policeman signals for a vehicle (not pictured) to stop at a checkpoint decorated with plastic flowers and painted blast walls in Baghdad January 18, 2009. Flowers and paint cannot mask bullet and shrapnel marks in the concrete blast walls of Iraq's checkpoints, where recruits like 23 year-old Jawad Jaddou face frequent attacks doing one of the world's most dangerous jobs. Writings on the blast walls read: "Who represents the law has to respect the law" and "Law is above all". REUTERS/Bassim Shati (IRAQ)
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