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| The crossed swords monument at the site of a photo of U.S. soldiers taken by Associated Press photographer Karim Kadim on Nov. 16, 2008. The crossed-sword archways Saddam Hussein commissioned during Iraq's nearly eight-year war with Iran stand defiantly on a little-used parade ground inside the Green Zone, the fortified district that houses the sprawling U.S. Embassy and several government offices. Iraqi officials began tearing down the archways in 2007 but quickly halted those plans and then started restoring the monument two years ago. Photo taken on March 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) |
The Denver post recently posted a gallery of photos from Iraq from now compared to 10 years ago to see what has changed. Although some photos show the growth and recovery of Iraq after the US has been there for a decade, some places look like they have not changed at all. Personally this is one my favorite things about photography. A journalist could write all about the changes and similarities between a country over a decade. But a photograph, however, shows clearly the exact same place, and there is no question about it.
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Iraqi
policeman Ahmed Naji stands on the grounds of the Iraqi National Museum
at the site of a photograph showing a U.S. Army tank parked outside the
Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad taken by Associated Press photographer
Murad Sezer on Tuesday, May 6, 2003. Tens of thousands of artifacts
chronicling some 7,000 years of civilization in Mesopotamia are believed
to have been looted from Iraq in the chaos which followed the the
US-led invasion in 2003. Despite international efforts to track items
down, fewer than half of the artifacts have so far been retrieved. Photo
taken on March 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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