Photographs From Iraq: May 27 - June 12, 2005

Recent photos from the war in Iraq. Due to the outage of infoshop.org, the most recent collection of Iraq photos is split in two parts.

Part 1: Murder in the Desert

Photos From Iraq: May 26 – June 12, 2005


A mother outside Baghdad’s al-Yarmouk hospital, where her three sons were brought after they were shot by American soldiers on May 26th. According to an Iraqi police official, U.S. soldiers fired on a bus in southeast Baghdad, killing three people and wounding four others. Two of the dead were children of the woman in the picture.


Husam Abdul-Zahra, who is 17, is the brother that survived.


Mohammed Hamid was injured during fighting between collaborators and anti-occupation militants in Fallujah, where the resistance has begun to re-establish iteself, on the same day.


Ahmad Sharif lost his eyes and his right arm when a bomb exploded near his home last year in Sadr City. On May 27, he was fitted with prosthetic eyes in New York. AFP didn’t say whose bomb hit him.


Collaborators on Sadoun street in Baghdad, as part of a much hyped lockdown of the capital


Squatter kids in Basra in front of their home, a building once used by Iraqi police. May 29.


Iraqi police remove the remains of a suicide bomber after he attacked a convoy of U.S. soldiers and collaborators near the oil ministry in Baghdad on May 29.


June 5, in Baghdad.


On June 8, another mysterious oil pipeline fire near Baiji.


Also on June 8, Iraqis living in the “green zone” in Baghdad staged a protest against their eviction. After the invasion, landlords jacked up rent prices throughout Iraq, driving many people to occupy former government buildings. A similar protest occurred on the same day in Basra, where some of the squatters were arrested; the girl’s sign says, “Why now?”


In the desert near al-Qaim, two vanloads of collaborators on leave were kidnapped and executed. This picture is from June 11.


In Baghdad the same day.


On the same day, Ehab Adel was in the hospital in al-Qaim after he was shot in the head by an American snipter.


So was Ahmed Abdullah – also shot by a sniper.


And so was Mohammed Latif. All were shot from the local customs offices, which had been occupied by Americans.


Also that day, the Americans carried out one of their “precision strikes” on the village of Karabilah, supposedly against muj checkpoints – but as usual, photographers who checked found destroyed houses and wounded civilians.


Such as Qusah Daham.


In Basra that day, several hundred women held a protest to demand that their family members, arrested by the occupiers, be released.


In Baghdad, when you don’t stop for a checkpoint.


Carrie French, KIA.

The Americans bombed al-Qaim again on June 13, killing at least three people and wounding 13, including this man.



Stories: The U.S. military admits a sharp rise in the number of American deaths caused by roadside bombs, as resistance fighters have been learning to build ‘shaped charges’ which are designed to penetrate armor. IEDs account for 51% of the 255 combat deaths as of early June this year.

In Fallujah, a group of 16 American mercenaries were arrested by the U.S. military and held for three days after they apparently attacked American soldiers on two occasions. Driving in their armored SUV’s, the mercenaries at first appeared to be firing randomly, shooting at soldiers and Iraqi civilians. Later however, they drove up to a Marine observation post and again opened fire. Eventually spike strips stopped their trucks. In another amusing twist, the mercs alleged mild torture while in U.S. custody.

About those mercenaries: They’re killing a dozen Iraqi civilians a week in Baghdad. Another article mentions that Robert Young Pelton, author of ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Places’ and a critic, in his own way, of American wars, has spent a year in Iraq with mercenaries and is writing a book on the subject.

Two officiers fragged in Tikrit.



Photos from Iraq Archives:

May 12-25

May 4 – 11

April 26 – May 3

April 13 - 24

March 28—April 10

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.