The Transition In Iraq
Photographs from the political transition in Iraq as the United States military pulled out between 2009-2010.
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Mahdi flings a scouring pad into a pile in Baghdad's Monsour district on Wednesday, January 21, 2009. Mahdi lost both legs shortly after the United States invaded Iraq in the early 1990s. A US State Department initiative in 2009 placed him in a Baghdad industrial park packaging scouring pads and steel wire.
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A British mercenary takes aim at a firing range in Baghdad on Monday, June 1, 2009. Dozens of private security companies have sprung up in the Iraqi capital hiring ex-military personnel as body guards for dignitaries and businessmen. These private firms have also been recruiting and training Iraqi locals as hired guns.