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Dit is een foto van Geert van Kesteren gemaakt in Irak toen hij met Amerikaanse soldaten optrok. Het illustreert minachting en angst van de bezettingsmacht. De Britse Times bericht. 'The US military has struggled to improve the cultural sensitivity of its troops — often raw youths on their first trip abroad — since the start of the occupation when the first soldiers to hit Baghdad slipped a Stars and Stripes over the head of Saddam Hussein’s statue. Jittery superiors swiftly ordered them to replace it with an Iraqi flag. Long before the Abu Ghraib scandal, there were numerous examples of brutality and insensitivity by US troops to match tales of their courage. Sometimes it was purely a lack of local knowledge: a minor riot ensued when dogs — considered unclean in the Muslim world — were used to sniff staff entering the Oil Ministry.' Lees verder: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1981556,00.html