
1- Fighters from the Islamic Army of Iraq.
3 - American troops pause to take a picture in-front of the monument dedicated to our Martyrs.
To me it represents how Iraq was defiled by the invasion. The monument in the back looks beautiful & sad at the same time.
To me it represents how Iraq was defiled by the invasion. The monument in the back looks beautiful & sad at the same time.
5 - A Former Ba'ath military checkpoint during a dust storm. I think somewhere in the South, possibly Nasiriya.
7 - Just before the American invasion. Schoolgirls in Tikrit march in a parade for Saddam Hussein's birthday. (2001)
18 - Kurdish Peshmerga keep watch in the mountains to strike Al-Qaeda backed Kurdish Islamists. (2002)
21 - Iraqis hold up pictures of murdered family members, demanding the execution of Saddam Hussein. (Baghdad Iraq, 2004)
22 - Iraqis protest in Tahrir Square, Baghdad. Putting images of mass graves of Saddam's victims on display. (2004)
Prayer in Camp Bucca (2003-2009) in Umm Qasr near Al-Basra, Iraq.
This is where the leadership of the Jihadist Insurgency got its start.
This is where the leadership of the Jihadist Insurgency got its start.
More pictures from Camp Bucca in Al-Basra governorate, Iraq during the American occupation.
The contrast of the bright lights against the desert landscape and tents really stands out to my eyes.
The contrast of the bright lights against the desert landscape and tents really stands out to my eyes.
5 year old Samar Hassan whose parents had just been killed in-front of her by US occupation forces.
Winter 2005.
Winter 2005.
Iraqi immigrant girl protests at at rally in Michigan State University on the first day of the invasion, 2003.
Iraqi men bury the bodies of five men killed in a mosque by an missile explosion from by American occupying forces. Fallujah, Iraq. 2003
Assyrian Christian woman running from the site of a car bombing in-front of a church in Baghdad, Iraq. 2004
The bombing that started the Iraqi sectarian Civil War.
Took place just outside Imam Ali shrine in Najaf Al-Ashraf.
August 29, 2003
Took place just outside Imam Ali shrine in Najaf Al-Ashraf.
August 29, 2003
This one is very firmly etched into my mind. The bombing of Karbala during Ashura on March 2nd, 2004.
Remember seeing this on TV a long time ago.
Remember seeing this on TV a long time ago.
The trial of Saddam (2006)
Straight from reality TV. Americans should have never given him this soapbox so they could get the image for their TVs.
What could've been a swift execution instead turned to a rallying cry of terror that still rings in our ears over a decade later.
Straight from reality TV. Americans should have never given him this soapbox so they could get the image for their TVs.
What could've been a swift execution instead turned to a rallying cry of terror that still rings in our ears over a decade later.
The bombing of the ministry of Justice (October 25, 2009)
I always found this building so beautiful, even in ruin.
I always found this building so beautiful, even in ruin.
Two dudes kissing infront of a British soldier and an unamused kid after the invasion of Iraq. (c. 2000s)
October 2002, just before the American takeover of Abu Ghraib prison.
Jubilant prisoners who had been freed. This was used as a torture prison both by Ba'ath and America.
Jubilant prisoners who had been freed. This was used as a torture prison both by Ba'ath and America.
According to a friend the above photo is from the battle of Shorja street. The fighter pictured was likely with the Sadrist movement.
The inside of a car of two Christian Iraqi Armenian women murdered by American guards in Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq 2007.
A young boy peers into the bloodstained car of the two Armenian women murdered by American guards, Baghdad, Iraq 2007.
The guards who murdered the two Iraqi Armenian ladies had been hired to protect financial and policy experts working for an organization under contract with the United States Agency for International Development, a State Department agency that works in Iraq.
Blackwater contractor burned and hung from a bridge as revenge for the American killing of protesters in the city the year prior. Fallujah, Iraq 2004.
It was this event that caused Americans to rain fire and terror down on the people of Fallujah.
It was this event that caused Americans to rain fire and terror down on the people of Fallujah.
Americans later returned to the bridge and graffiti'd it after slaughtering the people of Fallujah with white phosphorus among other banned munitions.
Children rejoice as the food ration lines begin and the fighting stops in Sadr City. Baghdad, Iraq 2008