New York- I was flipping through some now very old seeming contact sheets from my pre-digital, post-9/11 adventures where the neoconservatives were hard at work (though hardly working in their scant understanding of Middle Eastern history) reshaping a region they knew virtually nothing about outside of their beloved Judea and Samaria. I decided to scan a couple of these photos, which have never been seen, and share them with the amorphous online community. They were taken in the holy city of Najaf and depict the explosion of collective religious emotion among Iraq’s historically oppressed Shia population following the deposement of President Saddam Hussein by the United States. These were Donald Rumsfeld’s crudely generalized “free people” just before the many years of fitna (inter religious warfare) set in.