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Living under war shadow
Updated: 2004-08-19 11:41
Mays, an Iraqi Shi'ite girl, cries after a
mortar shell which landed outside the family's home in a Najaf residential
area and injured her uncle, August 18, 2004. The leader of a Shi'ite
uprising in Iraq agreed to leave a holy shrine encircled by U.S. Marines
in Najaf, hours after the interim government threatened to storm it and
drive out his fighters. [Reuters] |
An Iraqi girl, carried by her uncle, grieves
after losing her mother and sister during clashes between U.S. forces and
militiamen royal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the eastern
Baghdad's suburb of al-Sadr August 17, 2004. Fierce clashes erupted in
Sadr City late August 16, 2004, following an afternoon of battles after
militia exploded a bomb under a U.S. tank. [Reuters] |
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A Shiite woman cries for her neighbor, shot
and killed in the crossfire, as heavy gun battles resonated throughout the
holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2004. U.S.
forces launched a major offensive to crush a militia loyal to radical
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The fighting between U.S. forces and
al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia began here a week ago and has spread to other
Shiite areas of the country. [AP]
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Maria Lazova, mother of the Bulgarian truck
driver Georgy Lazov who was executed in Iraq, is comforted by relative as
she cries waiting the coffin of her son in the village of Kocherinovo,
August 3, 2004. Lazov was one of the two Bulgarian truck drivers kidnapped
in Iraq on June 29. [Reuters] |
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