Rethink

US soldiers gather biometric data during a census in Baghdad while searching houses. © Yuri Kozyrev, Aug 5, 2007

I cant give you any images from today as I haven't had time to download yet, but Dispatches, the brainchild of Gary Knight, does it for me. Yuri Kozyrev's comprehensive coverage of the US-led invasion of Iraq is a serious piece of journalism, let alone photojournalism. Subscribe to Dispatches here.

If you want a version of Yuri's work with captions, click here.

Also check out this most subversive film about the most hated man on this planet, the current US president.

post scipt: forgot to mention the music in the slideshow, how good is that!?

Two years later

Fallujah - Iraqi insurgents fire a mortar and small arms during the U.S.-led offensive against insurgents in the city.
Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP

On 16 April, 2008, AP photographer Bilal Hussein was finally told by his American captors that he would be set free, after being held for two years without charge.

The Pulitzer prize winning photographer faced unsubstantiated accusations from the U.S. military that he collaborated with Iraqi insurgents. I know that not many of us photographers even get the chance to go to Iraq, but once there you would have thought that the insurgents would be your main threat, right? Basically the US military can remove any journalist in the field that they see as undesirable and keep them locked up without ever saying why. So much for delivering democracy, eh?

The U.S. military agreed to release the journalist after determining that he “no longer presents an imperative threat to security.”

Read more here, here and here.