Armed residents of Fallujah parade two bare-chested and blindfolded men who were caught selling alcohol in the city in the back of a pick up truck. The men were whipped with hosepipes and taken through the streets as an example to those who violate th laws of Islam(AFP/Ahmed Faddam)
An Iraqi Civil Defense Corps ( ICDC ) soldier rests in an Iraqi Police station in Kharma, near Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, May 19, 2004. The police station, which is defended by the U.S. Marines 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, and ICDC soldiers, was attacked Tuesday night by militiamen using rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and small arms. There were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
Residents of Fallujah celebrate as they ride on a pick up truck through the streets of the restive city, 50 kms west of Baghdad. Both Iraqi police and masked insurgents shot off rounds and people flooded the streets, waving Iraqi national flags and honking their car horns in jubilation over what they mistakenly believed was a deal between the marines and the city's leaders to scale back the US presence in Fallujah.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)
A member of the Iraqi Civil defense Corps (ICDC) prays at a joint checkpoint as US soldiers look on at the entrance of Fallujah. heavy machine gun fire erupted in Fallujah after more than a dozen US Marines' armoured vehicles entered the Sunni Muslim bastion on a symbolic tour of the city rocked last month by the deadliest fighting in Iraq since last year's US invasion(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)