This little girl will always be the image I think of when I'm called upon to evaluate my country's dreadful criminal Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. I was hoping that they would show it, right at the very end of "Hubris", when the music became mournful, and the sobs began catching in my throat.
Five yr old Samar Hassan, a child whose parents were both shot dead in their family car by our soldiers in Tal Afar, Iraq.
Here is a slide show with audio commentary by the war correspondent, Chris Hondros, a photographer with Getty Images, who was embedded with that patrol on the evening of January 18, 2005.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6871483/
Chris Hondros' other photos of the incident:
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/18/iraqgallery/page1.shtml
Photographer Chris Hondros, age 41, was fatally wounded in Misrata, Libya, on April 20, 2011.
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