Photo by Sgt. John Crosby | 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 01.20.2008
An al-Qaida torture chamber found by Soldiers of Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., held 14 prisoners at one time, according to the two victims liberated from the cell Jan. 20. Prisoners were bound and beaten with cables and wires and had guns pointed at their head by members of al-Qaida in Iraq....
Photo by Sgt. John Crosby | 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 01.20.2008
Hooks and straps such as the one pictured were discovered in an al-Qaida prison/torture chamber by Soldiers of Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., near Arab Jabar, south of Baqubah, Diyala province, Iraq, Jan. 20. The two Iraqis who were rescued from the torture chamber said they were bound and beaten with......
Photo by Sgt. John Crosby | 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 01.20.2008
A liberated prisoner from an al-Qaida in Iraq torture chamber is reunited with his family Jan. 20 at Forward Operating Base Warhorse, Iraq, after 11 days of confinement and beatings....
Photo by Sgt. John Crosby | 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 01.17.2008
Spc. Sam Esquibel, a petroleum supply specialist in Company B, 202nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., pumps kerosene into jugs, supplying the people of Mansuriyah, Iraq, with much needed fuel, Jan. 17. Hundreds of Iraqis lined up to receive the rations during Operation Raider Harvest....
Photo by Sgt. John Crosby | 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 01.17.2008
An Iraqi man hands out sandwiches to the people of Mansuriyah, Iraq, Jan. 17, hundreds of Iraqis stand in line for kerosene rations. Operation Raider Harvest has provided extra security in the area, enabling fuel trucks to access the town, after the people went months without fuel....
Photo by Sgt. John Crosby | 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 01.17.2008
Soldiers of Troop G, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division pour kerosene into jugs for the people of Mansuriyah, Iraq, Jan. 17, during Operation Raider Harvest. The people of the town had not received kerosene rations in months due to security reasons....
Photo by Sgt. John Crosby | 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 01.17.2008
Capt. Jonathon Norquist, Civil Affairs officer, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division shows three Iraqi girls the picture he snapped of them while their families receive kerosene rations, a project organized by the Diyala provincial government for the people of Mansuriyah, Iraq, Jan. 17....
Photo by Sgt. John Crosby | 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 01.17.2008
A Soldier of Troop G, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division conducts crowd control as hundreds of Iraqis stand in line for kerosene rations in Mansuriyah, Iraq, Jan. 17. Due to fuel shortages in the Mansuriyah, the Diyala provincial government made arrangements for the people of the town to receive the much needed kerosene....
