Photographs From Iraq: July 15 - 29, 2005: They dont want you to see

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Warning Ibrahim Mohammed lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad on July 15. On his shirt is a tag installed by U.S. soldiers, who shot him, then gave him first aid, then sent him on his way in a taxi.

Women protest in Baghdad on the 20th to demand that their human rights be protected by the new constitution. The NYT reported that a draft of the constitution deferred to Islamic law to the extent that Shia women, for instance, would not be able to marry without their family’s permission Doctors at Baghdad’s al-Yarmuk hospital went on strike on the 19th, after an Iraqi soldier opened fire in the emergency room while arguing with doctors the night before. The same thing happened a few months ago as well, when soldiers demanded preferential treatment over civilians.

Eleven year-old Noor is held back by relatives at the funeral of her father, an assassinated police colonel, in Kirkuk July 24

Things have been heating up in Afghanistan lately, with as many as two dozen American soldiers killed in the last month. On July 26, thousands of Afghans rioted at the main U.S. base in the country, Bagram, hurling rocks at humvees and attempting to break down the gate. The demonstration, which was sparked by the arrests of several locals by the Americans, ended only when soldiers began firing in the air.

Sajidah Ali was wounded in one of three bomb attacks in Bagdad that day


Sajidah Ali was wounded in one of three bomb attacks in Baghdad that day.

A suicide bomber detonated next to a liquefied gas truck directly in front of a Shia mosque in Mussayib on July 17, causing it to explode and killing more than 80 people. There was no one but civilians around