he occupying military forces finally release three journalists
they had been holding for months without charge (but keep two more),
while an attack on another country kills women and children in their
homes. Random, unlucky deaths abound.
Photos From Iraq January 7 - 22, 2006
Four men were reportedly taken away by Iraqi police on December 11; in photos taken on the 29th, they were dead and obviously tortured.
Bubba dun died in Ahrak defindin Fruhdum
A man
shows items left behind by U.S. soldiers as they raided the
headquarters of the Association of Muslim Scholars, an above ground
anti-occupation group, at 3 A.M. and kidnapped five people on the 7th.
A picture which is said to show an AMS office after the raid. Not verified.
Two Iraqis, calling themselves Abu Lil and Abu Khattaf, were interviewed
by the NYT in Baghdad recently. Identifying themselves as members of
the Islamic Army, a prominent resistance group, they spoke about rifts
between Iraqi and foreign fighters.
A day at the theme park in Baghdad, on the 12th.
January 14, in Bajur, Pakistan, where a U.S. bomb attack killed 18 people - mostly women and children - according to local residents.
Local villagers held angry protests
after the attack, setting fires in the street and also reportedly
torching a U.S.-funded aid agency building. According the NYT article,
cited, this is the already second incident in 2006 of U.S. bombs
killing children in Pakistan.
Other large rallies were held throughout the country, many with a very strong anti-U.S. sentiment.
(Pakistan)
The
U.S. military finally released two Reuters journalists, Ali
al-Mashadani (left) and Majeed Hameed, from Abu Ghraib on the 15th,
having "detained" them for several months without charge. At least two
other Iraqi journalists working for international agencies are still in
occupation prisons.
On
the same day, journos for al-Arabiya in Dubai, in the U.A.E., harassed
Gen. Mark Kimmitt over the four-month detention of Iraqi journalist
Jawad Kazem by U.S. forces in Iraq. He was apparently released the same
day.
January 17, gunmen attacked a government agency that was supposed to fight corruption in Kirkuk. Two people were killed.
Same day in Baghdad, after a roadside bombing injured three Iraqis.
TIME
photographer Franco Pagetti walks from the scene of a twin bombing in
Baghdad on the 19th that killed 25 people. He escaped the bombs, but
was attacked by Iraqi police for photographing the aftermath.
A
carbomb exploded in Shaab market, north Baghdad, on the 21st, killing
one person and injuring several. The target is not known.
Marwa
Naeem, 13, sits in Baghdad before leaving for the U.S. on January 22.
Marwa's mother was killed and she was disfigured by a U.S. missile
during the invasion; nearly three years later, two NGOs are sending her
to LA for surgery.
The
funeral of Faris Hassan in Basra on the same day. An Iraqi border
guard, he was killed January 14 in an unexplained clash with the
Iranian navy on the Shatt al-Arab.
Reuters
TV cameraman Samir Mohammed Noor walks from Abu Ghraib in Baghdad on
January 22, after being imprisoned by the U.S. military for nearly 8
months without charge.
News:
U.S. soldiers are using electronic equipment to detonate roadside bombs prematurely. This could be a reason why so many miss their targets and kill civilians.
The campaign against journalists reporting non-positive stories from Iraq continues, as an Iraqi working for the Guardian is arrested in a violent pre-dawn raid. He was released, but his videotapes, part of a story on corruption, were stolen.
Another dispatche from Iraqi journalist Sabah Ali: About the Yosfiya area south of Baghdad. Not exactly professional journalism, but interesting nonetheless.
Insurgents and their wacky TV talk shows.
"Aerial IEDs" and other $200 ways to bring down a $500 million helicopter.
The former commander
of Abu Ghraib, Janis Karpinski, and the former UK ambassador to
Uzbekistan talked about torture at another mock trial of GW and co. The
ambassador said that the Uzbek government used torture on an
"industrial scale" and passed information gained by it to the CIA
regularly.
PFI needs a new host. If you know of a website that would host
this archive, as well as new additions, with FTP access available to
the author, please email dirtykaw at yahoo.com. Or if you have fancy
webpage skills and would like to help develop a free-standing site, do
the same.
Photos from Iraq Archives:
December 1 2005 - January 5, 2006
November 19 - December 3
November 6 - 17>
October 27 - November 4>
October 11 - 25
September 23 - October 10
September 5 - 20
August 23 - September 3
August 12 – 22
July 30 - August 10
July 15 – 29
July 1 – 14
June 13 – 28
May 27 – June 12
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:
Cryptome's Iraq-kill-maim.org, which has just started to archive AP photos from Iraq. High quality.
Yahoo Iraq photos
Getty Images> (type 'Iraq’ and re-search)
Crisis pictures (Defunct)
TheNausea.com
Dahr Jamail
Please reply here if you know where more original Iraq photos, preferably with details, can be obtained.
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