- THREAD: Interesting Photographs from the American Invasion and subsequent Iraqi Civil War(s).

1- Fighters from the Islamic Army of Iraq.

2 - American Soldiers March on Baghdad in-front of the Al-Shaheed monument.

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.

4 - Iraqi Policemen guard a sabotaged burning pipeline in Karbala. (2004)

5 - A Former Ba'ath military checkpoint during a dust storm. I think somewhere in the South, possibly Nasiriya.

6 - Jaish Al-Mahdi gearing up for war in South Iraq.

I think this one was taken around 2004.

7 - Just before the American invasion. Schoolgirls in Tikrit march in a parade for Saddam Hussein's birthday. (2001)

8 - Islamist fighters pose for a photo in Northern Iraq. (2006)

9 - Man in a shack, with Muqtada Al-Sader's posters behind him.

9 - Tribal leaders convene for a political meeting in Baghdad

10 - Young boy with his hunting rifle on the outskirts of Baghdad just after the invasion.

11 - Ba'ath Militias march on Baghdad. (2003)

12 - American troops occupy Tal 'Afar -- near Mosul, Iraq. (2005)

13 - American troops killed in roadside IED attack. 14 dead - 1 Survived. (August, 2005)

14 - Shock and Awe in Baghdad. (2003)

15 - A fighter and his gun. On patrol in Al-Anbar, Iraq.

(c. 2008)

16 - Jaish Al-Mehdi fighters, I think in Najaf.

18 - Kurdish Peshmerga keep watch in the mountains to strike Al-Qaeda backed Kurdish Islamists. (2002)

19 - Supporters of Saddam march in Tikrit. (2006)

20 - A father comforting his son in an American occupation prison camp in Iraq. (2003)

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.

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.

Islamist militia member near Kharma checkpoint in Anbar, Iraq. 2008

The bombing of the Imam Al-Askari shrine by Al-Qaeda in Samarra, Iraq. 2006

American occupier conducts home raid in Iraq.

5 year old Samar Hassan whose parents had just been killed in-front of her by US occupation forces.
Winter 2005.

Mourners at the funeral of Ayatollah Baqir Al-Hakim. 2003.

Iraqi men mourn relative killed in sectarian attack in Baghdad. 2005

Iraqi mourners march during the funeral of Ayatollah Baqir Al-Hakim, killed in a car bomb. 2003

Victim of a car bombing walks away in Baghdad, Iraq. 2007

Mother loses her 6 year old son to drive by shooting in Baqouba, Iraq. 2007

Graves being dug for victims of violence in Baghdad. Al-Najaf, Iraq.

Iraqi immigrant girl protests at at rally in Michigan State University on the first day of the invasion, 2003.

Al-Qaeda street fighters in Mosul, Iraq. 2005

Man moving the body of a dead boy killed in a Car bombing, Baghdad, Iraq. 2007

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

Dead body outside Baghad Airport during the battle for Baghdad, 2003.

Destroyed airplane during the battle for Baghdad airport, Iraq 2003.

Another angle of the destroyed airplane during the battle for Baghdad airport, Iraq 2003.

The bombing that started the Iraqi sectarian Civil War.
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.

Good riddance haha (2006)

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.

The bombing of the ministry of Justice (October 25, 2009)

I always found this building so beautiful, even in ruin.

More pics of its barren hull. It had a scenic location overlooking a roundabout.

This was an image of the dust rising from the moment it was bombed. 155 people died that day.

Iraqi troops patrol the Palm Groves of Mahmudiya, Iraq. (2007)

Very serene location.

Two dudes kissing infront of a British soldier and an unamused kid after the invasion of Iraq. (c. 2000s)

Abu Ghraib prisoners wave their hand through holes in the wall. (Iraq, 2003)

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.

Well dressed Anti-American insurgent running down the street in Baghdad, 2003.

According to a friend the above photo is from the battle of Shorja street. The fighter pictured was likely with the Sadrist movement.

Man driving a wrecked Peugot Car in Baghdad, October 2004.

Frisking an old lady in Ramadi, 2004.

Baghdad burning, March 2003.

School girls walk past tanks in Abu Ghraib suburb of Baghdad, 2003.

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.

An Armenian priest stands infront of the Oldsmobile car of the two slain women. 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.

Another picture from another angle of the hung blackwater contractors in Fallujah, 2004

Different angles of the same event.

Americans later returned to the bridge and graffiti'd it after slaughtering the people of Fallujah with white phosphorus among other banned munitions.

Young boy stands across an American soldier with toy guns in hand in Sadr City. Baghdad, Iraq 2008

Children rejoice as the food ration lines begin and the fighting stops in Sadr City. Baghdad, Iraq 2008

American soldier hits an old man waiting to receive his food rations in Sadr City. Baghdad, Iraq 2008