The Year in Pictures 2004

STANLEY GREENE / AGENCE VU

Iraqi Wrath
In a burst of anti-U.S. rage in March, four American security guards were gunned down in Fallujah. Their cars were burned by a mob of Iraqi men and boys, who then dragged the charred bodies through the streets and hanged the corpses from a bridge on the Euphrates River

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