"Unembedded " STUNNING Book of photos from Occupied Iraq

Unembedded
by kos
Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 01:11:38 PM PDT
Unembedded is a stunning book of photographs from four photojournalists roaming Iraq without U.S. military escorts. Over the next week I'll be featuring photos from the book.
http://www.dailykos.com/

"Much of what is shown in Unembedded will probably disturb many Americans who have generally watched a sanitized version of the war and occupation unfold on their TV screens. Unembedded captures the whole range of Iraqi life under US occupation from joyful wedding scenes to the carnage of civilian casualties. Its a stunning book."

—Peter Bergen, author of Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden




http://www.chelseagreen.com/2005/items/unembeddedpa/Photographs
Photo by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

NAJAF, AUGUST 25, 2004
A woman sits in front of a burning car fifty yards away from the shrine of Imam Ali. The car was hit by U.S. fire on Prophet Street, the main street leading to the shrine from the south, transformed into a sniper alley by U.S. forces.




Photo by Rita Leistner.

RASHAD PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, BAGHDAD, APRIL 15, 2004
Patients had few activities to occupy them. One was watching television, which included the Coalition Provisional Authority’s daily live broadcasts and updates to the press. On this day, General Richard Myers, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fielding questions on how he proposed to address the rising insurgency, especially Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. Myers underplayed the threat of the insurgents. A few months later the hospital grounds would shake from nearby bombs, and mortars would land in its courtyard as coalition forces fought the Mahdi Army right outside the hospital gates.




Photo by Rita Leistner.

SADR CITY, BAGHDAD, AUGUST 7, 2004
Members of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army take to the streets in rebellion against the interim Iraqi government and American military occupation.




Photo by Thorne Anderson.

SADR CITY, BAGHDAD, AUGUST 7, 2004
A young boy watches his relatives repair a rocket-propelled grenade launcher in the home of a Mahdi Army fighter.



Photo by Thorne Anderson.

NAJAF, AUGUST 27, 2004
A lone man walks through a devastated business and residential street west of the Imam Ali shrine. The street was a front line fighting position for the American Army and Mahdi Army fighters during a nearly three-week battle that left much of the old city and surrounding neighborhoods in ruins. A peace deal, brokered by Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani with the militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, allowed residents to emerge from refuge outside the city or hiding within it to survey their homes and businesses in the battleground.






Great link to Gallery:
http://www.unembedded.net/main.php

but we can't even see a picture of the flag draped coffins on our liberal media controlled television sets.

i KNOW what to expect when these pics are viewed -- it's mr and mrs 6 pak in bum fuck egypt i wonder about.