Where Are These Pictures From?

Where do you think these pictures are from? Is this from the neighborhood market in Korea?

Or is it E-Mart?

Maybe this picture will help you out.

Here’s your final clue.

Yes folks these are pictures from the new Iraq. The Iraqi city of Dohuk just to the North of Mosul shown in these pictures, I actually had the pleasure of driving through one time when I was in Iraq picking up a convoy with my platoon of MPs at the Harbur Gate on the Turkish border. It is amazing to think what life could be like in all of Iraq without the terrorists.

This site where these picture are from, the Michael Yon, Online Magazine, is truly the best site I have seen that describes Iraq exactly how I experienced it. Everything from his desciptions of the children, people, viewpoints, the land, the terrorists, and the media in Iraq are all extremely accurate. Some of his desciptions of the Iraqi civilians and soldiers killed broght a tear to my eye because I seen the same senseless violence claim lives in Iraq too. While the media focuses on terrorists locked up in Gitmo being tortured by having their AC turned up to high the terrorists are doing things like this unreported:

Recently, an insurgent hid behind a child in order to attack Americans. The tactic came as no surprise to the soldiers here. Terrorists routinely play wounded or feign their surrender in order to get close enough to launch an attack on Coalition or Iraqi Forces. In January I wrote about one bomber who grabbed the hand of a small child while she was playing on a sidewalk. Smiling, he walked with the child in hand, approaching some Iraqi police, and exploded. Americans standing close by were unharmed.

Many children died or where injured in this attack. Read the posting for a full report with more pictures about what happened. Here is a picture from the attack that actually made the news wires but how many people actually know the above story that caused the child to be killed in the first place?

Definitely check out this site if you want to know what is really going on in Iraq.