2. These pictures date from just after the fall of Baghdad.
What they show is men who had been captured while looting. This happened just after the first round of criticism of the looting of the museum in Baghdad.
Supposedly the US had not yet had time to set up any prison facilities, so to punish looters, the soldiers forced them to strip, and in some cases wrote "Ali Baba" on their chests as a way of indicating they were theives.
They would then be paraded around for awhile before being released.
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