Photographs From Iraq; February 3 - 10, 2005
Collaborators killed by the dozen, a brief respite from carbombs in the capital, soldiers murder a teenager in Sadr City, and Fallujans return to a democratic police state. Collaborators killed by the dozen, a brief respite from carbombs in the capital, soldiers murder a teenager in Sadr City, and Fallujans return to a democratic police state.
Photos From Iraq; February 3 – 10, 2005
On February 3, a car of Iraqis who worked on a US military base in Baquba was ambushed, and two of them were killed. Four others were wounded.
Iraqis look through a hole in the wall of the al-Tawhid mosque in Baghdad, which was damaged when unidentified gunmen ordered guards to leave and placed explosive charges on February 4. ‘Tawhid’ can be translated ‘unity’ in Arabic.
American general James Mattis, who recently said it had been “fun” to shoot Iraqis and that war is “a real hoot”, pictured in Fallujah in April 2004. His failed siege of Fallujah, retaliation for the slaughter of four mercenarie,s killed as many as 1,000 Iraqis in, nearly all of whom were civilians.
One of the Iraqis who was ‘fun’ to shoot – in Fallujah, April 2004.
A British soldier distributes propaganda, described as a ‘British military newspaper in Arabic’ to young Iraqis in Basra, also on February 4.
Iraqis working for the US-installed regime are seen through the windows of a destroyed car in Basra, where a bomb killed four collaborators on February 5. Basra had been mostly quiet for months until a few weeks ago.
American mercenaries fly over Baghdad in a helicopter on February 6. These are from the same ‘security contractor’, Blackwater, whose armed (“civilian”) employees were famously ambushed and lynched in Fallujah in March of 2004.
Relatives carry the coffin of 15 year old Marwan Mehdi, who was killed by a patrol of American soldiers and collaborators on the night of February 6 in Sadr City – two other civilians were reported injured.
Several bombings this week killed at least 50 people working for the US-installed Iraqi regime. On the 7th, a police station in Baquba (above) and a group of police outside a hospital in Mosul were attacked, killing 29 people, all of whom were reported to be police or recruits. The next day, a bombing killed dozens more collaborators in Baghdad at a military recruiting center.
Iraqis check corpses for friends and family outside a morgue in Baghdad on Feburary 8. The bodies were left outside because the freezers are totally full of dead Iraqis. The dead were among fourteen people killed in a bombing at a collaborator recruitment center.
An Iraqi child watches an American soldier in the destroyed city of Fallujah on the same day. Fallujans who return home must submit to a retina scan, pass through numerous checkpoints to enter their city and carry ID cards at all times, and are subject to constant harassment by the massive military presence there. The red ‘X’ is seen on many buildings, but the photographer did not explain its meaning
In the background, an American soldier searches a kid, but look at the phonetic spellings of Arabic phrases written on the fence: ‘Are you gonna vote’? Many Iraqis reported being intimidated into voting; in Fallujah, it seems to have been an implied condition for returning home.
An oil pipeline burns, after it was sabotaged, near Kirkuk, also on February 8. Another was attacked the next day.
Smoke billows from the Haifa street area of Baghdad, as an American military helicopter hovers nearby, February 9. A battle between resistance fighters and collaborators reportedly took place there, but few details were available.
On the same day, a “journalist” who worked for the American government’s Arabic TV propaganda network al-Hurra was shot dead in Basra, along with his four year old son. He also worked on ‘information’ for the local collaborationist government.
This kid was shot during a fight between anti-occupation fightes and collaborators in Baquba; the picture was taken on the 10th. As often happens, it was not reported whose bullet hit him.
This facial expression should not be in the vocabulary of someone so young. (February 10th, in Mosul)
Car bombs returned to Baghdad on the 10th, having taken an unusually long hiatus – almost two weeks. This one killed at least two people (or four, depending on the reporter) and injured five others in an attempt to hit an American convoy – no word on American casualties, although lately the military has taken to announcing them in extremely vague statements days after the fact.
A policeman fires warning shots to disperse a crowd gathered at the site of the car bomb. Later in the day, collaborators supposedly searching for those behind the car bomb were ambushed and found themselves in a two hour gun fight which killed at least 10 police.
Iraqis from Fallujah wait behind barbed wire in a line to try to obtain a badge that the US military requires them to carry in order to return to their city; February 10, 2005.
Photos from Iraq Archives:
Jan 25 – Feb 1
Jan 15-24
Jan 3-14
Dec 12-19 (2004)
Nov 23-Dec 6
Nov 16 – 24
Sep 25-Nov 10
Sep 1-21
(some photos may be broken due to Yahoo moving images around)
selected sources:
Yahoo Iraq photos
Crisis pictures
The Nausea.com
Dahr Jamail
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