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Global News Portfolio: Iraq: The Dark Days Iraq

  • A couple crosses a Sadr City street which is being watched by two U.S. tanks the day after a peace deal was made between Muqtada al-Sadr and Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani in Najaf. Battles between Shiite militants and U.S. forces in Sadr City left three dead and 25 injured on Saturday.
  • A member of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army fires a rocket propelled grenade at a U.S. Army tank, which has taken up position on the south side of Sadr City. Clashes between the Mehdi Army and the U.S. military continued today in Sadr City as maneuvers were being made to end the standoff in Najaf between al-Sadr and the new Iraqi government.
  • Iraqis dance on top of at U.S. Army Bradley Fighting Vehicle that was left burning on Baghdad’s Haifa Street in the morning hours of Sunday Sept. 12. After a U.S. patrol of about six U.S. armored vehicle left the area, residents clamored on the vehicle and threw rocks at it even as the ordinance inside were exploding.
  • In front of a wall painted with the message, {quote}Vietnam Street: We'll make your graves in this place..{quote} thousands of Shia men participate in midday prayers around the streets of Moqtada al-Sadr’s al Hekma Mosque. Sheikh Nasr al Sadr gave the sermon, which complained that the Allawi government and the U.S. were breaking the peace agreement that was signed in Najaf by storming a religious school in Najaf and disrespecting al-Sadr clerics. His sermon went on to list several other grievances but only hinted at any retaliation for these issues.
  • U.S. soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division, 1st Battalion, 14th Regiment, Alpha Company, who are attached to the 1st Infantry Division, advance past the bodies of insurgents killed during the attack to take back Samarra from insurgent control. The operation circled the city of Samarra with four battalions.
  • U.S. soldiers, with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, Bravo Company, question a man charged with being part of a mortar and improvised explosive device team in the Islah Zeral neighborhood of Mosul. U.S. and Iraqi Army forces raided his home and detained four other men after receiving a tip from Iraqi Army intelligence that the men in the home were part of a skilled mortar and IED making team. The soldiers hoped that the detained men would lead them to their mortars, but they did not. The men were taken into Iraqi Army custody and then later released to U.S. custody. One of the men detained was a master sergeant in Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard, trained as a mortar man. A Mosul police station, called Four West, had received forty to fifty well-targeted rounds in the last few months by this team of men.
  • Corporal Scott Horton pats down a prisoner to take him to a family visitation session at Camp Redemption in the Abu Ghraib prison complex. Once detainees greet their visitors, the U.S. solders will take a digital photo of them together and hand them the images before they leave.
  • Detainees pray, as dawn breaks over the level-one detention area of Camp Redemption at the Abu Ghraib prison complex. The camp has level one to four detention levels with the level-one camp housing the best-behaved prisoners. This camp was built after the prisoner abuse scandal made the prison infamous. The U.S. released the buildings where the abuse took place to the control of the Iraqis and now runs its operations in this new camp.
  • Crowds help to pull the body of a person killed in a car bomb in the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad, which killed at least four people and wounded about 15 others. The crowd carried the body down the street to emergency vehicles yelling {quote}Allah Akbar!{quote} which means {quote}God is great!{quote} The car bomb exploded across the street from the Shiite Abdul Rassul Ali Mosque.
  • The light from a Marine's rifle illuminates a man he shot during house to house fighting in Fallujah, Iraq.
  • Marines help Lance Corporal Enrique Mayer who was shot in the leg after being ambushed by insurgents. After fleeing the ambush Mayer found shelter in the home behind him. Mayer lay bleeding as the firefight raged. After the insurgents were killed Mayer was lifted out of the house when he became dizzy because of his blood loss and fell on his fellow Marines.
  • Yarmuk Hospital, Baghdad’s second largest hospital, treats children injured from unexploded ordinance, men shot during fights with looters and other serious cases. Bleeding wounds are controlled and critical patients are stabilized until the hospital’s single functioning operating room is available. Due to 12 years of United Nations sanctions, the hospital lacks basic equipment like heart monitoring devices and backup generators.
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