IRAQ 2003

Kurdisch fighters near mosul take a rest after long marches throught the desert
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Frontline northern troups
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Waiting for action and eat in the meantime
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
New troop to arrive at the Northern frontlines.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003

Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
After the fights
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003

Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Kurds om their way to tikrit
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Kurdisch fighter in a captured iraqi camp.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
village destroyed by Allied misfire.<br>
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
village destroyed by allied misfire.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Iraqi  home after a bombardment.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
captured Iraqi soldier cries.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Iraqi surrender near Mosul
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Heavy wounded man with a bullit in his head drove with his friend for hours on a donkey into enemy territory , just looking for a doctor.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Heavy wounded man with a bullit in his head drove with his friend for hours on a donkey into enemy territory , just looking for a doctor.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Kirkuk, when the fighting is hardly over, looting begins.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Kikuk, taking down the Saddam statue by the local firebrigade-truck
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
people take revenche at the statue of Saddam.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003

Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
souvenir from the statue of Saddam
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
celebration in Kirkuk.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Man celebrates after taken down the Saddam statue.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Kirkuk, looting the cola factory, who was owned by one of saddams sons.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Us troops at the refineries in Kirkuk
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Us jeep passes by a burning Saddam
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Mosul, Peschmerka with a bullit wound is brought in
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
mosul, a day after the riots.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Near Tikrit people wait for what will happen next.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
clearing the industrial area of Tikrit.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Train station, clearing the industrial area of Tikrit.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Us troops inspect cars and find weapons, the first evening in Tikrit
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Tikrit, first day the US troops arrived, taking prisoners.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Tikrit, first day the US troops arrived, taking prisoners.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Tikrit, US troops look into the luggage of Iraqi women.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003

Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Bagdad
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Mass graves
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Children in mosul  in between clashes.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Northern Iraq- near kirkuk<br>Salah Thabet Ibrahim(right), an arabic who doesn't want to leaf the village where he bought and built his own house, althought Kurds have been trying to force him out, he wants to make an example for other arabs, he is the only arab house in all the village left.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Iraqi who have to leave their home becose Kurds are returning to the area.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Iraqi who have to leave their home becose Kurds are returning to the area, they destroye their homes so no Kurds can live there.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Iraqi who have to leave their home becose Kurds are returning to the area, and end up in tents in the desert.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
Kurds returning to kirkuk.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
the village of Khader, next to Dibis, the first Kurdisch families return to the houses, where some weeks ago Arabs have been living.
Northern Iraq- april 2003
the village of Khader, next to Dibis, the first Kurdisch families return to the houses, where some weeks ago Arabs have been living.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
kurds return home<br>Northern Iraq- april 2003<br>the village of Khader, next to Dibis, the first Kurdisch families return to the houses, where some weeks ago Arabs have been living.
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Northern Iraq- april 2003<br>the village of Khader, next to Dibis, the first Kurdisch families return to the houses, where some weeks ago Arabs have been living.
Northern Iraq- april/may 2003
to Eddy van Wessel website.