Iraq Civil War #10 - Day 44
Like the image I posted back on March 27th, two days after Maliki declared war on the Mahdi, what lends the most poignancy to a situation we have otherwise grown numb to are pictures that are as this elemental.
In the latest de-evolution in the unrecognized Shiite civil war, American forces -- with the support of troops from the U.S.-installed, pro-Iranian government -- have so knocked the shit out of Sadr City that a mass exodus would surely take place (similar to the exodus from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities that nobody seems to be reporting much about) if only the people, now trapped and starving, could get out.
Witnessing this woman's hands gripping onto a truck while waiting for food supplies to be distributed by Iraqi soldiers not only offers a powerful window into Sadr City, but in the personality, expression and adornment of those hands is the anguished and detailed portrait of an individual as well.
accompanying article: Aid Officials Urge Relief For Baghdad Slum (Reuters via NYT)
BNN Iraq Civil War thread
NYT Pictures of the Day, May 8 (nytimes.com)
(Photo: Petr David Josek/AP. May 2008. Sadr City. via nytimes.com)












Adam Nagourney a TV star? I don't think so.
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