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Looking death in the face After September 11, 2001 Keith Brooks photojournalist for ten years filmed reports on the actions of U.S. armed forces and about life in the Middle East. In this collection you'll see her picture out of Iraq in 2003-2004.
"For me, there was no question whether I am doing stories about the war in Iraq. The only thing I could not decide which side was to remove the conflict. After spending several weeks in Kuwait, I went to Tehran to go from there to the northern part of Iraq. One of the representatives of the Iranian government has forwarded me and another reporter "Time" to the Iran-Iraq border. The first months of the war I spent in the snowy mountains of Kurdistan, making reports against the Sunni Islamist organization of Ansar al-Islam against the forces of Kurds, calling themselves the "eshmerga," which means "looking death in the face."
By the summer I moved to the south. In August, the city of Najaf, I photographed the Shia religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr, when a car bomb exploded at the tomb of Imam Ali. Hearing the explosion, I rushed there, and what I saw was like hell. Cars were burning. Along the street were charred human remains scattered. One of the survivors lay, holding out his leg torn off and looked at me as if I could advise him what to do now.
Next week, colleagues congratulated me on my success - my reportage in Time allocated for six pages ... Just my very reason that success was not pleased. "
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A. The man at the site of the explosion at the tomb of Imam Ali, which killed 135 people. Najaf, August 2003. (Kate Brooks)
Two. The river of blood on the street at the tomb of Imam Or. The attack killed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, calling on the Iraqi people to unite. (Kate Brooks)
Three. The boy, who was taken to hospital after the attack in Najaf. (Kate Brooks)
4. Keeping the Iraqi tradition, the shop owner said the generator hands the imprint in the blood of sacrificial lamb. So he asks Allah protect once in front of his shop, American troops killed several people. (Kate Brooks)
Five. Iraqi family mourning the death of a loved one in a terrorist attack on UN headquarters. (Kate Brooks)
6. Left: a torn poster with a portrait of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit. Right: the corpse of a man of the Baath Party on the ground attack in Kirkuk. (Kate Brooks)
7. Kurdish soldiers on a man's body from the organization Ansar al-Islam, a special unit of the U.S. dead. Ansar - an organization linked to Al Qaeda. She went to war with the local population in 2001. (Kate Brooks)
Eight. Keith Brooks, "When the Hussein regime fell, I went to Kirkuk, to capture the liberation of the city. I was traveling with two Kurds, and in conversation mentioned that two months waiting for this day. One of the men replied that he was waiting for this for 12 years." (Kate Brooks)
9. The corpses of three men from a grouping of Komal, who is part of the Ansar al-Islam. (Kate Brooks)
10. Residents of the Kurdish city of Chamchamal hiding in the mountains of the fighting: close to their city were part of the Republican Guard of Saddam Hussein. (Kate Brooks)
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