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 | Iraqi students walk past a banner expressing condolences for the shooting victims of Virginia Tech, USA, on the fence of the Baghdad Technology University, Iraq, Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Universities and academics in Baghdad have been among the hardest hit by the violence plaguing Iraq, but students on one campus still found themselves saddened by last week's massacre at Virginia Tech and hung up a banner to express their condolences. The banner text reads: The Council of Students Union in University of Technology, and the students, condemn the recent criminal act in the Technological Sciences University in Virginia, which murdered a number of students. This is an act we reject as it is a violation of the sanctity of universities throughout the world as a whole. We convey our warmest condolences to the families of the victims who are suffering the same as those of Iraqi universities now. click to open  |  | Students walk to class following a cermony paying tribute to the shooting victims on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, 23 April 2007. As students returned to classes at Virginia Tech where last week a classmate shot down 32 people, a new poll showed Americans only slightly more in favor of gun control than before. click to open |  | Virginia Tech employees begin the process of archiving much of the makeshift memorial that was created in the aftermath of the shootings on the campus in Blacksburg, Va., Tuesday, April 24, 2007. The school officials were removing the paper items that could be damaged by approaching rain storms. click to open |  | Celeste Peterson, center facing the camera, hugs Kum Suk Song as she is greeted by mourners outside the entrance to Mt. Olive Baptist Church before the start of the funeral service for her daughter, Erin Nicole Peterson, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 in Centreville, Va. Erin Nicole Peterson was a freshman at Virginia Tech who was killed in last week's shooting. Standing on the right is Ke So Song, husband of Kum Suk Song and their daughter Jane Song, left. click to open |  | Mourners line up out the door and into the parking lot before the start of funeral services at Mt. Olive Baptist Church for Erin Nicole Peterson, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 in Centreville, Va. Erin Nicole Peterson was a freshman at Virginia Tech who was killed in last week's shooting. click to open |  | A television cameraman films Paul Gallagher as he talks to his son Jack, 3, while seated next to one of the boards with inscriptions by mourners on Drill Field on the Virginia Tech campus Wednesday, April 18, 2007 in Blacksburg, Va. Thirty-two people, both students and faculty, died on the campus in a rampage last week by gunman Seung-Hui Cho. click to open |  | Celeste Peterson, center back to the camera, is hugged by an unidentified mourner as she is greeted outside the entrance to Mt. Olive Baptist Church before the start of funeral service for her daughter, Erin Nicole Peterson, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 in Centreville, Va. Erin Nicole Peterson was a freshman at Virginia Tech who was killed in last week's shooting. click to open |  | Virginia Tech students relax and walk to class in Blacksburg, Va., Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Life is returning to normal and school officials are beginning the process of archiving much of the makeshift memorial that was erected after gunman Seung-Hui Cho massacred 32 students and faculty members in a shooting spree last week. click to open |  | Virginia Tech students view the makeshift memorial on the campus in Blacksburg, Va., Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Life is returning to normal and school officials are beginning the process of archiving much of the makeshift memorial that was erected after gunman Seung-Hui Cho massacred 32 students and faculty members in a shooting spree last week. click to open |  | Virginia Tech students walk to class in Blacksburg, Va., Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Life is returning to normal and school officials are beginning the process of archiving much of the makeshift memorial that was erected after gunman Seung-Hui Cho massacred 32 students and faculty members in a shooting spree last week. click to open |
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