John Moore: Iraq - Digital Journalist

U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division Sgt. Steven Brussel leans into the wind as a sandstorm at dusk turns the desert blood red near Karbala, Iraq. The sandstorm grounded many Air Force bombing overflights over Iraq and slowed U.S. military progress in the area near Karbala. March 25, 2003.	Under a full moon in the desert of western Kuwait American troops listen to President Bush live, March 18, 2003. The president gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq or face military action. The company had been in Kuwait for almost four months waiting for war.	French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin appears on television at an appliance store in Kuwait City during a U.N. Security Council debate on Iraq, March 7, 2003. "France will not allow a resolution to pass that authorizes the automatic use of force," he said.
American tank crews pray during a heavy sand storm before convoying to a position near the Iraqi border, March 19, 2003. The commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, Maj. Gen. Buford Blount III, ordered his troops to reposition to locations near the border as President Bush's deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq approached.	U.S. Army infantrymen discuss continued invasion plans while in the desert near Karbala, Iraq, March 24, 2003. The forces raced through the desert, avoiding major fighting in an effort to reach Baghdad quickly.	Tank crews perform a "Seminole Indian war dance" before convoying to a position near the Iraqi border for the invasion, March 19, 2003. The commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, Maj. Gen. Buford Blount III, ordered his troops to reposition to locations near the border as President Bush's deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq approached.
A U.S. Army multiple-rocket launcher lights up the desert as it fires towards Iraqi targets from a position in the desert of central Iraq, March 31, 2003.	U.S. Army M1-A1 tanks from the 3rd Infantry Division move into position near Karbala on March 27, 2003 during the invasion of Iraq.	A U.S. Army officer runs during fighting at an Iraqi military compound south of Baghdad, April 4, 2003. Troops searched the compound, destroying Iraqi military vehicles and helicopter parts.
U.S. Army soldiers approach an Iraqi woman shot during the crossfire with Iraqi forces over the Euphrates River when the Army seized a bridge in Al Hindiyah, Iraq. The soldiers rescued the woman, who was taken to a U.S. field hospital for treatment. March 31, 2003.	A U.S. Army officer reads a military map as a bullet casing flies into the air during a firefight with Iraqi forces across the Tigris River in Baghdad, April 7, 2003. The unopened bottle of French wine, vintage 1983, was found in a bombed house next to one of Saddam Hussein's palaces which American troops took over earlier that day.	Baghdad residents push an injured family member to a hospital after an Iraqi rocket launched at American soldiers shot high and blasted into a house on April 10, 2003.
U.S. Army soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment storm a presidential palace complex in Baghdad, Iraq, April 8, 2003. The palace was the second they had secured in as many days, both lavish buildings heavily damaged by previous Air Force bombing. At top is a massive bust of Saddam Hussein.	A U.S. Army soldier shows off a briefcase-concealed MP-5 submachine gun in Baghdad, Iraq, April 14, 2003. It was one of 22 such weapons the Army found in an arms cache the day before. The James Bond-style gun is primarily used for state secret service, as well as covert and terrorist operations.	U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, and fellow soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment relax after searching a bomb-damaged palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on April 7, 2003, after the Army entered the Iraqi capital in the so-called "Thunder Run" assault.
Looters push a safe out from a bank after tearing it open in Baghdad, April 10, 2003. American forces nearby did nothing to stop the widespread looting in the capital, a decision that would haunt them in later months as the U.S. struggled to set up a working government.	A boy rides his bicycle through the streets of Baghdad, even as a fire caused by continued sporadic fighting between American and Iraqi forces billowed smoke into the sky, April 10, 2003.	Tank Commander Ssg. Terry Brake from Somerset, Ky., listens patiently as college student Sama Samira, 21, says that U.S. troops have hurt Iraq by invading it and creating chaos in the streets. She said she supported Saddam Hussein and refused to accept that his government had been toppled.
U.S. Army soldiers search a building in Baghdad after shooting into it, killing three Iraqi civilians, April 9, 2003. The American forces blasted the house after being fired upon from atop the roof.	An Iraqi civilian complains to American forces about insurgent kidnappings and killings in his neighborhood on the western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, July 24, 2007. He said that Iraqi Army soldiers had confiscated his personal weapon at home, leaving his family vulnerable to attack. He described a 45-minute gun battle just two nights before, where local citizens fought against insurgents who had come to kidnap a neighbor.	Kamesa Yasif Hussein shows portraits of her slain father, Abed Ali Hassan, and her six brothers in Dujail, Iraq, Oct. 20, 2005. She said that all of them were arrested and disappeared by Iraqi security forces in 1982, never to return. Saddam Hussein was later hung after being convicted for ordering the execution of 148 residents of Dujail, allegedly killed as revenge for a 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam.
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein smiles during court proceedings against him and his co-defendants during the resumption of their trial on Dec. 21, 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq. He and the other defendants were charged with ordering the deaths of more than 140 Shiite men from the town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, following an attempt on Saddam's life in July 1982. Saddam was later convicted and executed.	American soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12 Cavalry Regiment out of Fort Hood, Texas, gaze at three huge busts of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, March 5, 2004. U.S. forces removed the busts from the roof of one of Saddam's palaces the previous year.	A U.S. Marine wakes another for his turn on guard duty as the Marines "spoon" for warmth while sleeping in a house captured by American and Iraqi forces from a man the military said was an insurgent financier during an operation in Ramadi, in the Anbar province of Iraq, Jan. 17, 2007. The combined forces swept into Ramadi under the cover of darkness and began searching neighborhoods for insurgents. Ramadi, with daily combat between insurgents and U.S.-led forces, had seen some of the highest casualty rates of the war.
Sunlight filters through a sandbagged window as U.S. Marines prepare to go on patrol at a combat outpost in Ramadi, in Iraq's Anbar province, Jan. 23, 2006. American forces set up the outpost in an effort to further quell insurgent activity in Ramadi, which had seen some of the highest casualties of the war.	U.S. Army soldiers pause while patrolling through Ramadi in Iraq's Anbar province, Jan. 16, 2007. Ramadi, with daily fighting between American forces and insurgents, was at the time considered one of the most dangerous places in Iraq.	U.S. Army Spc. Jaime Tielbar, 20, from Waukon, Iowa, coughs from the dust while holding his teddy bear Sgt. Theodore at a temporary camp in the desert of western Kuwait, March 17, 2003. Tielbar's fiancee mailed him the bear in January from home. The unit waited in the Kuwaiti desert for four months ahead of the Iraqi invasion.
(PHOTO TAKEN WITH NIGHT VISION GOGGLES): A U.S. Marine illuminates a building using an infrared laser only visible using night vision goggles while on a search operation for insurgents in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2007 in Ramadi, in Iraq's Anbar province. Buildings near the Government Center were destroyed by U.S. troops to deprive insurgents of shooting positions. American forces used night vision goggles, taking advantage of technology to aid the element of surprise and reduce the effectiveness of insurgent snipers on U.S. forces.	(PHOTO TAKEN WITH NIGHT VISION GOGGLES): Wearing reflectors only visible using night vision goggles, a U.S. Marine storms into a house while on a search operation for insurgents in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2007 in Ramadi, in Iraq's Anbar province. American forces use night vision goggles, taking advantage of technology to aid the element of surprise and reduce the effectiveness of insurgent snipers on U.S. forces.	(PHOTO TAKEN WITH NIGHT VISION GOGGLES): A U.S. Marine guards an Iraqi mother and children while other Marines interrogate the father while on a search operation for insurgents in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2007 in Ramadi, in Iraq's Anbar province.
A U.S. Marine mans a machine gun after his unit set an island on fire on the Euphrates River in Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq, Feb. 2, 2007. Members of the Marine Dam Security Unit 3 poured fuel over the island and set the fire in an attempt to burn off the foliage and deprive insurgents of fighting positions.	A U.S. Marine finds a way through the tall grass on the bank of the Euphrates River in Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq, Feb. 2, 2007. Members of the Marine Dam Security Unit 3 found heavy artillery shells and mortars, commonly used to build improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the number one killer of American forces in Iraq. Insurgents fired on the Americans as they were about to detonate the cashe, sparking a brief gunfight, but no one was injured in the exchange.	A U.S.-trained Iraqi paramilitary soldier points his AK-47 past a nursery school after a stone-throwing mob attacked U.S. forces in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2004. Training and building the Iraqi military became one of the main objectives of U.S. forces during 2004.
American troops from the 1st Cavalry Division stand in the haze of a smoke grenade during an attack by a stone-throwing mob on the gates of Camp Bonzai in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2004. The soldiers had been treating Iraqis injured from multiple explosions at a nearby shrine when the mob attacked the troops.	Displaced Iraqi children watch American soldiers while waiting to pass through a U.S. military checkpoint to return home to Fallujah, Iraq, April 27, 2004.	An Iraqi Army soldier talks to an ice cream vendor while on patrol with U.S. forces in Baghdad's Khadamiya neighborhood, Sept. 7, 2007. Attacks on American and Iraqi forces in the predominately Shiite area decreased considerably after Muqtada al-Sadr announced that he was suspending offensive operations of his Mahdi Army militia for up to six months.
Iraqi Special Forces soldiers celebrate in Baghdad on July 29, 2007 after the Iraqi national soccer team won the Asian Cup tournament. The 1-0 win against Saudi Arabia sparked a rare nationwide celebration in Iraq. It was the first time the Iraqi team had won the cup.	American 4th Infantry Division soldiers detain all the men, 31 in total, in the village of Mashahdah, Iraq, 45 kilometers north of Baghdad, July 13, 2003. Such sweeps and mass detention of Iraqi men, many of whom were later found innocent, ballooned the number of Iraqis held in the Abu Ghraib prison.	An Iraqi man lies on the ground as he waits to be searched and detained by U.S soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division, during a military sweep at Mashahdah, 45 kilometers north of Baghdad, Iraq, July 13, 2003. Such mass detentions of Iraqi men, many of whom were later found innocent, ballooned the number of Iraqis held by the U.S. military in the Abu Ghraib prison.
Fourth Infantry Division soldiers from the 1st Battalion 68 Armor Regiment take trophy photos of themselves with detained Iraqi men of the village of Mishahdah, Iraq, 45 kilometers north of Baghdad, July 13, 2003. The U.S. Army considers such acts as a violation of the Geneva Conventions.	Fourth Infantry Division soldiers from the 1st Battalion 68th Armor Task Force detain and put sandbags over the heads of all the men, 31 in total, of the village of Mashahdah, Iraq, 45 kilometers north of Baghdad, July 13, 2003. Such sweeps and mass detentions of Iraqi men, many of whom were later found innocent, ballooned the number of Iraqis held by the Americans in the Abu Ghraib prison.	An American soldier gives a smoke to an Iraqi detainee after a search operation in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 9, 2004. Army soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division said that he tested positive for explosive residue on his hands.
An Iraqi detainee screams "Allah" while tied down in a "humane restraint chair" at the maximum security section of the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 28, 2005. His jailers, U.S. Army military police, said that he was being punished for disrespecting them, and that he would spend two hours in the chair as punishment. The suspected insurgent, a juvenile, had earlier been moved to the maximum security section of the prison for 30 days for attacking a guard in another section of the facility.	An Iraqi detainee holds out his hat while being body searched by American military police before being visited by family members inside the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, June 23, 2004. Military sweeps and mass detentions of Iraqi men, many of whom were later found innocent, ballooned the number of Iraqis held by the Americans in the Abu Ghraib prison.	Iraqi detainees pray at the Camp Cropper detention center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 19, 2007. U.S. forces have a total of some 25,000 detainees in several centers in Iraq, up from only about 14,000 before the American troop surge this year. The detainee population includes insurgents from all anti-coalition groups in Iraq, Al Qaeda foreign fighters as well as many innocent Iraqis caught up in U.S. military raids.
A U.S. military review committee conducts a hearing of the case of an Iraqi detainee at the Camp Cropper detention center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 20, 2007. The three-officer committee reviews each detainee's case every six months, allowing the prisoner to refute the circumstances of his detention and even provide new witnesses. After the hearing, the committee deliberates and decides whether to continue the detainee's incarceration or set a release date. The U.S. military has a total of about 25,000 detainees in several centers in Iraq, up from only about 14,000 before the American troop surge. The detainee population includes more than 800 juveniles, insurgents from all anti-coalition groups in Iraq, Al Qaeda foreign fighters, criminals and many innocent Iraqis caught up in U.S. military raids.	An Iraqi detainee watches as his son kisses through the plexiglass during an hour of family visitation inside the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, June 19, 2004. Most of the 2,600 detainees at the prison were allowed one visit per week by members of their family.	A juvenile detainee stands in a solitary confinement cage in the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq on Oct. 27, 2005. He was being punished for talking through the fence to detainees in an adjacent section of the prison. With the continued arrests of suspected insurgents across Iraq, including teens, the population of prisoners at Abu Ghraib ballooned as the U.S. miiltary struggled to build new larger prisons.
A U.S. Marine untangles himself from concertina wire while he and other Marines from the 1st Battalion 5th Marines break down some of their camp defenses in Fallujah, Iraq, April 29, 2004. The Marines' first assault on Fallujah that April ended in stalemate and they were forced to withdraw. In November, they returned with greater numbers of forces and virtually destroyed the city.	American officers watch President Bush's speech on the war in Iraq, Jan. 11, 2007, while at Camp Ramadi in Iraq's violent Anbar province. The president announced a troop increase of some 20,000 forces, and that many forces already there would have their deployments extended.	Members of the U.S. Marine Security Force walk through the halls of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 6, 2007. The platoon of Marines from the Anti-Terrorism Battalion is tasked with defending the exterior of the U.S. diplomatic mission against attacks in one of the most dangerous cities in the world. The United States has used the former palace of Saddam Hussein as its embassy since shortly after the invasion in 2003. A new embassy is currently under construction.
An American soldier walks past the U.S. Embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 3, 2007. While American troops deployed to Iraq are forbidden to drink alcohol, thousands of armed contractors have no such restraints. The embassy, now located in the former main palace of Saddam Hussein, will be moved to a new building currently under construction.	U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker (L) and David Petraeus, Commanding General in Iraq, meet with staff in Crocker's office at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 2, 2007. They were preparing for their upcoming trip to Washington, D.C., to discuss with Congress their key assessment of the troop surge in Iraq.	U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker checks his watch just before leaving for Washington D.C., Sept. 6, 2007 in Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq. Crocker and Commanding General David Petraeus traveled to give Congress a much awaited report on the state of the war in Iraq.
American soldiers in Baghdad cheer as the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders take the stage as part of a military USO tour of Iraq, Sept. 15, 2007. The cheerleaders, on their first trip to Iraq, did five shows throughout the country for the soldiers, many of whom were on 15-month deployments.	A U.S. Army military policeman stands guard around the stage while American soldiers cheer as the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders take the stage during a military USO tour of Iraq, Sept. 15, 2007. The cheerleaders, on their first trip to Iraq, did five shows throughout the country for the soldiers, many of whom were on 15-month deployments.	Army Nurse supervisor Patrick McAndrew tries to save the life of an American soldier by giving him CPR upon arrival to a military hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004. The soldier was fatally wounded in a Baghdad firefight with insurgents.
A U.S. Army nurse takes the fading pulse of a dying American soldier at the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2007. The soldier was fatally wounded by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Baghdad. The hospital, located in Baghdad's Green Zone, receives many of the nearly 30,000 U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq. More than 4,000 soldiers have died in the war.	American Army doctors treat the broken leg of a Palestinian Al Qaida fighter captured in Fallujah, according to hospital officials, after he was transported to the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, on Nov. 14, 2004.	A U.S. Army medic looks over the CAT scan of a captured Iraqi insurgent after he was wounded during a battle with American forces in Baghdad on Nov. 14, 2004. The insurgent died shortly thereafter from a large piece of shrapnel lodged in his brain.
A Purple Heart medal is taped to the chest of a seriously injured American soldier at the combat hospital in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 15, 2004. He was to be flown to Germany that night and then on to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C., for further treatment.	Army operating room nurses walk to the hospital morgue with the body of a U.S. Marine who had been mortally wounded in Fallujah, Iraq. He died at the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad on Nov. 14, 2004, according to hospital officials. The body was flown back to the United States.	A U.S. Army military policeman prepares to start his 12-hour shift guarding detainees after a briefing held in the chapel of the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 28, 2005. With continued arrests of suspected militants across Iraq, Abu Ghraib had almost doubled in detainee population since the beginning of the year.
Sandbags cover a window at an American combat outpost in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 14, 2007, as U.S. President George W. Bush makes an address concerning the Iraq war. Bush announced a withdrawal of about 20,000 troops from Iraq by July 2008 as part of the end of the "troop surge."	Mary McHugh mourns her slain fiance, Sgt. James Regan, at "Section 60" of Arlington National Cemetery, May 27, 2007. Regan, a U.S. Army Ranger, was killed by an IED explosion in Iraq on Feb. 7, 2007, and this was the first time McHugh had visited the grave since the funeral. They had planned to marry after his return. Section 60, the newest portion of the vast national cemetery on the outskirts of Washington D.C., contains hundreds of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.