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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) sits next to US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker (L) as they attend a meeting with Kurdish, Sunni, Christian, Turkmen and Shiite community leaders in Kirkuk, 255 kms (160 miles) north of Baghdad, 18 December 2007. Rice visited Kirkuk in northern Iraq today on a mission to support UN reconciliation efforts in the ethnically fragmented oil city. The visit came as Turkish troops entered northern Iraq to flush out separatist Kurdish rebels, Jabbar Yawar, spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga security force, told AFP. AFP PHOTO / MARWAN IBRAHIM (Photo credit should read MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP via Getty Images)