{"id":1138,"date":"2010-10-05T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T23:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2010-10-06T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T23:13:40","slug":"time-capsule-najaf-iraq-april-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"Time Capsule: Najaf, Iraq-April, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1139\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1139 \" title=\"Najaf_1\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young man hoists a poster of Hazrat Imam Hussayn riding his horse Zuljanah during the battle of Karbala in 680 a.d.. \u00a92003 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1140\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1140\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1140 \" title=\"Najaf_2\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_2-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mothers carry their children above the fray in front of the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Talib in Najaf. \u00a92003 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1141\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1141\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1141 \" title=\"Najaf_3\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_3.jpg 720w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_3-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Iraqi boy salutes my old Canon camera on the streets of the holy city. \u00a92003 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1142\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1142\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1142 \" title=\"Najaf_4\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_4.jpg 720w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Najaf_4-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Shia tribesman from southern Iraq circumambulates the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Talib. \u00a92003 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>New York-<\/strong> 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&#8217;s historically oppressed Shia population following the deposement of President Saddam Hussein by the United States. These were Donald Rumsfeld&#8217;s crudely generalized &#8220;free people&#8221; just before the many years of <em>fitna<\/em> (inter religious warfare)\u00a0set in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1138\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[361,359,360],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","tag-hazrat-ali","tag-imad-ul-nabi","tag-najaf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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