The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Count Zalmay Khalizad. An Afghan, he was previously ambassador to his native country. Shortly after his departure, Afghan insurgents have shown a regained strength.



Clashes between rival Shia factions broke out across the south of the country on the 24th, after members of the Iranian-backed, and tacitly pro-occupation, Badr brigades attacked followers of the anti-occupation cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as they tried to open an office in Najaf, killing four people. Here, a Badr/SCIRI headquarters in Basra after it was hit with mortars.



Marsh Arabs build a reed house near Najaf on the same day. The huge Mesopotamian wetland area that was drained by the former regime is being restored, although only very slowly. More.



In Baghdad that day, a group of anti-occupation fighters staged a sophisticated attack on a police patrol in the Khadra neighborhood, killing several people.



This man was among the injured in the Khadra attack.



On August 25, the brother of assassinated cleric Hamad Yassin sits outside the ER of Baquba general hospital. Yassin was killed by the notorious ‘unknown gunmen.’



On the 26th, an estimated 100,000 people across the country demonstrated, variously, against the federal structure in the proposed constitution, against the continued occupation, and for better services such as electricity and water. This picture is from Kufa, near Najaf.



Other protests took place in Sunni areas, such as Baquba.



A former detainee walks away from Abu Ghraib prison on the 27th. The U.S. military claimed that it released 1,000 people who were “accused” (USM term - virtually none of the Iraqis in their custody have ever been formally charged with any crime) of nothing in particular – somewhere between 16 and 70 thousand Iraqis are still being held at Abu Ghraib and similar detainee camps – without any legal rights.



Members of the ethnic Shabak community rally against the constitution near Mosul on August 28.



An Iraqi boy runs past a car as firemen extinguish the fire, in Baghdad, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005. An American patrol opened fire on a civilian, who was driving the car near the Um-Al-Quraa mosque, for not respecting the patrol sign, killing him and causing the car to burn, Major Mousa Abdul Karim from Al-ghazalyaa police said. (Mohammed Uraibi).



A U.S. soldier with a gunshot wound to the chest is evacuated from Tal Afar. He later died.



The sister, center, and other relatives of Reuters journalist Waleed Khaled grieve at his funeral in Baghdad on the 29th. Khaled was shot dead by an American sniper the day before; another Iraqi journalist riding in his car was wounded and then kidnapped by the Americans.



Elsewhere in the capital, a mass funeral was held for 36 Sunni men who were found shot in the head, handcuffed, and dumped in a shallow river near Kut; i.e. killed by a collaborationist death squad.



A man jumps into the Tigris River in Baghdad, during a panic stampede on a bridge caused by rumors of a suicide bomber. Nearly 1,000 people died – they were among tens of thousands of Shia pilgrims attending a ceremony.



People run for cover on the same bridge where the stampede occurred the very next day. A protest march ended when gunfire erupted, apparently as part of a neighborhood, and sectarian, rivalry. (In case you’re wondering, PFI tries to provide all possible details – but they just aren’t available.)



At a protest against the proposed constitution in Ramadi on September 2nd, Iraqis chanted “We are brothers, Sunnis and Shiites, we will never sell this country.” Many people believe the regional autonomy in the constitution will lead to the disintegration of Iraq.



Same day in Baghdad, hundreds of mourners chanted ‘anti-government’ slogans and demanded the resignation of the interior and defense ministers at the funeral of Thamir Mansour, who was killed by the police.



Sunni and Shia clerics at the funeral of Othman Ali al-Ubeydi, in Baghdad on the 3rd. A Sunni, al-Ubeydi is said to have saved the lives of seven Shias in the Tigris during the stampede; he himself died on an eighth attempt.



Mohammed Ziyad, outside a hospital in Samarra, after he carried his dead brother and father there. Iraqi police said that four civilians were killed and 11 injured when mortars meant for a U.S. military installation instead hit a residential area. September 3, 2005

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For anyone out there who still “Supports Our Troops”, PFI suggests you check out this website:  http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com/bbs/forum23.html



This picture, among others, is presented in a bulletin board posting on that site, below the caption “Submitted Fresh from Iraq - A Friendly Terrorist Bake [thumbs up]”. On this particular bulletin board, U.S. military personal trade pictures of Iraqis that they killed for pictures of hardcore pornography.. No fucking joke.



Another photo that was traded for porn: The “suicide driver” who, for the record, was shot dead by American soldiers. As ‘sparks’, the poster put it, : “so not listening to the signs we gave him to stop i.e. yelling, warning shots, the visual signs, the gate down, weapons pointed at him meant please keep coming we are just fucking with you? if ignoring those things aren't suicidal then i guess we fucked up. but last time i checked when an unmarked vehicle charges and does not stop is not something good over there.” No bombs or weapons were found.



What more needs to be said? Read the site, and be sickened.



Video link: ‘Fallujah: The day after’

News:The American-installed government has officially begun to execute prisoners. Keep in mind that they are widely known to extract ‘confessions’ under torture.


Posters: PFI will send you 11x17 anti-recruitment posters featuring Iraq photos for free. Email or reply here.






Photos from Iraq Archives:
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:

Yahoo Iraq photos
Getty Images> (type ‘Iraq’ and re-search)
Crisis pictures
TheNausea.com
Dahr Jamail
Cryptome

Please reply here or email dirtykaw at yahoo.com if you know where more original Iraq photos, preferably with details, can be obtained.