Eye Witness: Iraq

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Deminging done awspices of UNOPS. Kurds demine field after one month traing program.
Sarchena Park, Kurds favorite holiday spot. Everybody is drinking alcohol, first we've seen in Iraq, banned since the Gulf War.
Jwan onmar Ahmad 21 teaching grade 5, 28 students. Kurdish grammar class. Kanysard.
380 Kurds live here in this farming village with no electricity. Sharawa
A woman smiles for the camera in Iraq.
A mine victim receives a prosthetic leg at Diana Prosthesis Center in Iraq.
Kinespi Mine Field. Dog operation in Kurdistan, dogs can clear up to 3500sq meter/ day.
Annual celebration of Saddam Hussein's birthday. Tikrit, Iraq.
Daura refinery on the outskirts of Baghdad. Built in 1954 by the British and the US oil companies, where 4000 workers produce...
People await opportunities at the Khassim Asahil Stock Market.
UNOPS Maidan Mine Action Training Center is an operational branch of the United Nations.
Tourist smiles for a picture in front of an Arabic sign and a banner read in English.
Soccer of Baghdad Stadium, Al Zawroa (popular professional team) vs Al Talaba (College All-Stars).
Wheep and Shephards enroute to Koysanjag.
An Iraqi man holds an AK-47 assault rifle in his store.
Flower shaped artwork on display in a courtyard in Tikrit, Iraq.
A merchant displays goods in his store.
Gas Station on route to Dokan.
Reed house, modernized with electricity. Sheikh tells of draining of the marsh.
An aerial view of the Basra Palm tree plantations.
Sarchena Park, Kurds favorite holiday spot. Everybody is drinking alcohol, first we've seen in Iraq, banned since the Gulf War.
Garden of Eden- the site, though obviously not the tree at the junture of the Tigris and Euphrates river. Now a sad site not ...
Marsh located in Al-Torba, Iraq.
Old City-Basra. The City is falling apart, decaying buildings, garbage, and squatters. Once famous for its camals and old arc...
Ziggurat built 4000 yrs ago by the Sumerian. A place of worship. Iraq's best known antiquities site is now in the middle of ...
Citadel from top of Mircowave tower bombed during Gulf war. Center of city rises 102,000 meters abouve the rest of the town. ...
A boy poses for picture in front of a painting in Erbil, Iraq.
Soldiers, PDK(People's Democratic Kurdistan) Militia dancing. Kurds love to dance.
Garden of Eden- the site, though obviously not the tree at the junture of the Tigris and Euphrates river. Now a sad site not ...
Khadimiya, owner Josen Mohamed owns 4100 sq meters of farmland inside Baghdad. He hires workers in exchange for crops.
Daura refinery on the outskirts of Baghdad. Built in 1954 by the British and the US oil companies, where 4000 workers produce...
Daura refinery on the outskirts of Baghdad. Built in 1954 by the British and the US oil companies, where 4000 workers produce...
Children receive bandages to cover their wounds at Saddam Hospital. Mosul bomb victims.
A street view of the city of Mosul, Iraq.
An aerial view of the city of Mosul, Iraq.
Old City, from atop of the Al Hadba Minaret(the leaning one). Monsul street scenes
Army Reserve gathers once a month in Baghdad.
Saddam Tower War Monument. Baghdad, Iraq.
Saddam's Poet Laureat, Abdul Rassaq Wahid playing pool in his house in Baghdad.
Amiriya Shelter- Shine to the 1991 war, a bomb shelter where 402 civilians including women and children died after two missle...
A woman covers half of her face with a veil in Iraq.
A frontal view of the city of Mosul, Iraq.
Abu Hanita Mosque. Feast prayers the beginning of Iraqi national holiday.
Metal smiths perform their craft in Badghdad, Iraq.
14th of Ramadan, Friday Prayers
Car repair district, Khadimiya, one of the smaller repair districts of Baghdad.
Car repair district, Khadimiya, one of the smaller repair districts of Baghdad.
Carpet souk, washing and drying carpets.
Carpet souk, washing and drying carpets.
Live Animal Market, outside of Shrja marketplace.