Photos Tell the Story of Iraq's Struggle

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Numbers and words, words and numbers, repeated so many times they begin to lose meaning. A suicide car bomber rams a military checkpoint. Police find 28 bullet-riddled bodies in shallow graves. A man walks into a restaurant and blows himself up. And so it has come to be that photographs, in many instances, bring home the real story of death and destruction that constitutes daily life in Iraq, a year after coalition forces handed over control of the country to an interim Iraqi government.


Western reporters are often officebound when not embedded with U.S. troops. To step outside a fortified hotel invites being shot or kidnapped. Because of that, Iraqi photographers risk a great deal to document what is happening to their country and to their people.

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Outside a hospital in town of Tikrit, a father sits on his haunches beside his 5-year-old daughter. She lies on her back on a tile floor, cushioned by a mishmash of clashing, garishly colored sheets and blankets. A strand of dark hair falls over one eye. Her small face is peaceful, as if she were taking a nap. But there is blood under her head, discolored from the passing of time, and an empty, collapsed IV bottle against her shoulder.

She was shot during an Iraqi army raid. She died at the hospital. Her father shields his eyes with his hand. The small of his back is braced against a stucco wall. He does not touch his little girl. The slump of his shoulders says this cannot be true; this is too much to bear.


:cry:.... much more sadly. These photographers are heros...



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