Photographs From Iraq: March 28 - April 10, 2005

Endless killing, strange propaganda, more oil sabotage, and links to new videos. Iraqis hold a massive protest with one message: End the occupation now. Endless killing, strange propaganda, more oil sabotage, and links to new videos. Iraqis hold a massive protest with one message: End the occupation now.

Photos From Iraq: March 28 – April 10, 2005


This picture is from January 5, 2005, when American soldiers killed four Iraqi civilians, including the sister and parents of the man on his knees at right, and injured two others after they were attacked in Ramadi.


Karim Noor Karim, a Major in the Iraqi police, was shot dead by American soldiers in Najaf on the 28th. Apparently he approached a checkpoint on the wrong side of the road.


An Iraqi celebrates his release from Abu Ghraib prison, March 29. Later this week, the US military was forced to admit that inmates at the Umm Qasr prison rioted on April 1st, burning tents and injuring a few soldiers with rocks – days after a tunnel that led more than 600 feet to outside the prison was discovered.


On the same day, students in Mosul staged a protest to demand the release of three students arrested there during a raid by US occupation soldiers.


Mohammed Hassam was injured, and another civilian was killed, when a convoy of US soldiers was attacked with a carbomb near Abu Ghraib on the 30th. Recently, the US announced plans to vacate the prison due to the constant attacks on it. On April 2, it was attacked by as many as 50 resistance fighters, who wounded some 40 Americans there.


Fighting between American soldiers and anti-occupation militants left at least six people dead in Mosul on the 30th, including a woman and a child. Another five were wounded. A US soldier was also killed.


After a roadside bomb struck a US convoy in Baquba, on the 31st.


A propaganda billboard in Baghdad reads “Children Deserve Protection” and encourages people to snitch on resistance fighters. On a related note, the malnutrition rate of Iraqi children, which was already very high, has more than doubled under US occupation and is now among the worst in the world.


Another billboard in Baghdad.


An American armored personnel carrier burns after it was attacked in western Baghdad on April 2 – two soldiers were injured.


Residents of Ramadi protest outside the Aziz al-Hakim mosque on the 3rd, a day after US soldiers raided it and detained several cleaning and maintenance workers.


A pipeline near Kirkuk was sabotaged on the 4th.


A U.S. military convoy apparently ran this van off of the airport road in Baghdad on the same day, injuring (or killing?) three people.


U.S. soldiers run for cover as their tank burns from a rocket-propelled grenade hit, on the 5th in Baghdad. Also in the capital that day, a top General in the collaborationist army was kidnapped.


A carbomb stuck American soldiers in Mosul on the 5th, and they responded by shooting a 14-year old boy in the head at the scene, according to AP. This is the only picture of the incident that made it out of Iraq. Later in the week, the military announced that it had shot and arrested an Iraqi photographer in Mosul working for CBS after “mistaking his camera for a gun.” Now they are “investigating his support for anti-Iraqi forces.”


American soldiers shot Ayad Abdul Mehdi in Baghdad on April 6. They were frightened when he stumbled upon their patrol; so they shot him.


Five Iraqis working as soldiers for the occupation were shot dead in Mahmoudiya on the 9th.


On April 9, two years after U.S. soldiers captured Baghdad, Iraqis staged a massive demonstration, demanding that they get the fuck out. Tens of thousands of people attended the protest, which was called by Sunni and Shia clerics.


Effigies of Blair, Hussein, and Bush all wearing chains, nooses and prison jump suits at former location of the famous Saddam stutue.


A re-enactment of torture at Abu Ghraib.


The protest overflowed a huge square in Baghdad; there were smaller events in other cities as well. (My apologies for the watermark)


The feet of Iraqis, who are among more than 17,000 people imprisoned by the occupiers. The vast majority are not charged with any crime and have no way to secure their release. April 10, 2005.

A newspaper in Florida recently obtained a series of short videos taken in Ramadi in 2003. One depicts American soldiers playing with they dead body of an Iraqi they shot. In another, an Iraqi detainee who has been shot moans while soldiers mill about, occasionally kicking him. Another is titled See Haji run, see Haji get shot.

The full series



Photos from Iraq Archives:

March 21--27

March 12--20

March 1–11

February 21--28

February 11--20

February 3--10

January 25 – Feb 1

January 15--24

January 3--14

November 23--Dec 6 (2004)

November 16 – 24

November 13–18
September 25--Nov 10

September 1-21

(some photos may be broken due to external sites moving images around)

selected sources:
Yahoo Iraq photos
Getty Images> (type ‘Iraq’ and re-search)
Crisis pictures
TheNausea.com
Dahr Jamail
Cryptome

Please reply here or email dirtykaw at yahoo.com if you know where more original Iraq photos, preferably with details, can be obtained.

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