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Marjan, a 50 year-old African male lion who has lived in the zoo for the last 47 years, sits in his cage in Kabul's destroyed zoo in this November 2001 file photo. Tony Banks, a former minister in Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites)'s Labour government, welcomed promises from London and Washington that troops would do their best to avoid hitting ordinary Iraqis in bombing raids, but said they also needed to think about the creatures in Baghdad's El-Zawra Zoo. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
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