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  • Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family's home

    05/01/2008 9:22:51 AM PDT · by hadit2here · 36 replies · 1,075+ views
    Associated Press ^ | April 29, 2008 | ASSociated Press
    Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family's home in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The child, who later died in hospital, was in one of four homes allegedly destroyed by U.S. missiles. More than two dozen people were killed when Shiite militants ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's embattled Sadr City district, bringing the death toll in area on Tuesday to more than 30, a U.S. military spokesman and Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
  • U.S. Troops Detain 2 AP Staffers in Iraq

    09/23/2003 2:27:18 PM PDT · by TexKat · 78 replies · 325+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 9/23/03 | Unknown
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. soldiers detained an Associated Press photographer and driver on Tuesday, handcuffing them, forcing them to stand in the sun for three hours and denying them water or use of a telephone. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division detained photographer Karim Kadim and driver Mohammed Abbas, both Iraqis, near Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, and kept their guns trained on them, despite repeated attempts to explain they were journalists. The troops were looking for explosives planted in the area. "We identified ourselves from the very beginning as press, even before we approached...