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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY GUILLAUME DECAMME Iraqi young weightlifters (L-R) Nagah, Tiba and Hoda arrive for a training session at a gym near Baghdad's Sadr City on September 20, 2012. A conservative, Shiite-majority area of Baghdad serves as the unlikely base for Iraq's first female national weightlifting team, which is due to compete in Morocco on September 27. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/GettyImages)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY GUILLAUME DECAMME
Iraqi young weightlifters (L-R) Nagah, Tiba and Hoda arrive for a training session at a gym near Baghdad's Sadr City on September 20, 2012. A conservative, Shiite-majority area of Baghdad serves as the unlikely base for Iraq's first female national weightlifting team, which is due to compete in Morocco on September 27. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE        (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/GettyImages)