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Boy with a gun

Young children playing in the backstreets of al-Amarah and reacting to a British Army patrol

"It is a dangerous place and time to be a child pointing a toy pistol at soldiers with weapons

Willing subjects

Two adolescent girls peer from the relative safety of their house in the village of Jadeed al-Muallamin on the banks of the Tigris River, north of al-Amarah

They are waiting as a British Army patrol talks to the village elders

"The girls were quite happy to be photographed, so long as I stayed at a discreet distance

A young Iraqi boy stands in front of a tanker set ablaze by insurgents in a suburb of Baghdad