One of the best journalists with the photographic lense is photographer Peter Turnley
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The multiple award-winning photographer (also recipient of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize) has impressively documented the first Gulf War.
In 2003, Peter was kind enough to grant me the publishing of some of his exceptional photographs he took during Gulf War I. They were featured in an editorial of mine on the website "ONLINE WRITERS AGAINST WAR", an organisation I had founded with like-minded writers and journalists from all over the globe to raise our voices and warn against G.W.Bush's impending "Shock and Awe" invasion of Iraq.
Images we never got to see during this war...
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During the night of the 25th of February and the day of the 26th of February in 1991, Allied aircraft strafed and bombed a stretch of the Jahra Highway ("Mile of Death").
A few days after the end of the Gulf ground war, an American soldier inspects carbonized bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed when their convoy of vehicles was bombed and strafed by Allied aircraft as the convoy attempted to retreat from Kuwait back to Iraq. This was a different and much less exposed convoy that was bombed than the one from the "Mile of Death". This one was on an obscure road to the north and east of Kuwait City. The bodies of the man Iraqi soldiers were later buried by Allied Forces at the end of the war.
Photojournalist Peter Turnley's impressive coverage of the "Mile of Death" and what else occurred in these two days of February 1991 in the desert, not far from Kuwait, is a lasting testimony to the horros of the war.