Baghdad: the view from the Palestine Hotel. This is Firdos Square, where the famous Saddam statue was pulled down before the eyes of the world when the Americans entered Baghdad.
Baghdad: this is the Martyrs Monument, commemorating the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers who died during the Iran-Iraq war. The monument is now an American military base.
Baghdad: kids playing around a burnt-out car.
Baghdad:
one of Saddam's unfinished follies: it was to be the biggest
mosque in the world, but now stands unfinished.
Baghdad: by night. The River Tigris.
Baghdad: the destroyed building of Uday's infamous Olympic Federation, where torture and rape was allegedly a common sport.