Photo-Essay 3: USA Bombs A Baghdad Market

Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 9:14 am
Article: Scoop Photo-Essay

Photo-Essay 3: USA Bombs A Baghdad Market

WARNING. THESE GRAPHIC IMAGES MAY DISTURB: The founding purpose of information sharing is to empower individuals to make informed choices. If publishing these images causes those, who would otherwise send more to their deaths or support the killing of innocents, to consider the true consequence of their decisions, then publishing is justified.

Photographs courtesy of http://www.aljazeera.net - http://www.arabnews.com/WebExclusives.htm - http://www.ccmep.org/iraq.html - and independent sources.

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