Recent scenes from Iraq

Muhammad Tauseef A. Bajwa

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Recent scenes from Iraq

Abbas Ahmed navigates a network of generator wires during a power outage in Baghdad, Iraq on June 25, 2010.

An Iraqi boy watches an Iraqi Emergency Response Brigade (ERB) member search his family home after an arrest warrant was issued for his father who was suspected for p*****ng IEDs, on May 27, 2010 on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi Special Forces and ERB and been training under US Special Forces for several years with a heavy focus on evidence collection and both legal and human rights for detained suspects. Members of the unit make little more than $700 a month and keep their identity a secret as many hail from areas where insurgency is rife.

An Iraqi soldier from 2nd Division gives water to detainees after returning to their base from a morning mission on June 5, 2010 in Mosul, Iraq.

A man, who was wounded in a bomb attack, bleeds as he waits for treatment at a hospital in Baghdad June 20, 2010. Suicide car bombers had attacked the Trade Bank of Iraq, killing at least 26 people, an Interior Ministry source said. The blasts wounded 53 people at one of the public sector's most active financial institutions, which is at the forefront of efforts to encourage foreign investment in Iraq.

A woman kisses the shrouded body of her four-year-old niece, Zainab, who was killed in a Baghdad bombing, as the family prepares for her burial in the Shi'ite city of Najaf, 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2010. The child was killed along with her entire family - mother, father, and sister - on Sunday, when suicide bombers attacked a crowded Baghdad commercial district.

Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims self-flagellate as they gather at the Imam Musa al-Kadhim Mosque in the Kadhimiya district of northern Baghdad on July 7, 2010, to mark the death of the eighth century Imam.

US soldiers carry the body of a fellow soldier killed in a car bomb attack during a memorial ceremony on June 11, 2010 on FOB Cobra, near Jalula, Diyala Province, Iraq. Specialists William C. Yauch (23) of Batesville, Arkansas and Israel P. O'Bryan (24) of Newbern, Tennessee, from Bravo Company, 5th BN, 20th Infantry Reg, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division were killed along with 2 civilians and 1 Iraqi policeman when a suicide bomber drove into their patrol.

Iraqis look at items taken from an abandoned US military base for sale at a junk market in Baghdad on July 15, 2010. As US soldiers in Iraq prepare their pull-out over the coming months, the Pentagon is getting rid of the fixtures and fittings of the bases they live in, some of it at auction, some bound for the black market.

U.S. Air Force medical technician Rachel Reidel pauses in "Heroes Hall," on May 8, 2010, a place where injured service members were encouraged to pay tribute to fallen comrades while waiting to be evacuated to Germany, at the Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq.

Salim Walid, 20, grieves for his younger brother Ali Walid, 15, who was killed in a car bomb attack in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, Iraq on Thursday, July 15, 2010

U.S. Major General Jerry Cannon dedicates a giant key to Iraq's Justice Minister Dara Noor-Eldeen as a symbolic gesture during a ceremony marking the transfer of Camp Cropper, the last U.S. detention center in Iraq, to the Iraqi government in Baghdad July 15, 2010.
Bodies of government-backed Sunni militia members who were killed in a bomb attack are piled in a truck to be transported to a hospital in the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 mi) south of Baghdad on July 18, 2010. A suicide bomber attacked government-backed Sunni militia on Sunday as they lined up to be paid on Baghdad's southwestern outskirts, killing at least 39 and wounding 41, Iraqi security sources said.

Sgt. Jerrald Jensen, who was injured in an IED attack in Iraq, recently returned to his active-duty unit after recovering in the Fort Carson, Colorado, Warrior Transition Unit. Jensen has a reconstructed jaw and much of his face is damaged. Photo taken May 9, 2010.

An Iraqi man weeps at a hospital in Kirkuk, over the body of his young daughter who was killed in one of two car bomb explosions on June 18, 2010, targeting a provincial councilor and a police officer in which at least six other people were killed and about 80 wounded, including several women or children, according to police.
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