Kurdistan Photo كوردستان posted a photo:

Kurdistan kurd peshmerge
هه‌زاران سلاو بۆ گیانی پاکی هه‌موو شه‌هیدانی كوردو كوردستان.
هه‌زاران سلاو له‌ گیانی پاکی نه‌مری بارزانی هه‌رده‌م له‌ یادمان و ڕێبازه‌ پیرۆزه‌كه‌ی هه‌میشه‌ زیندووی
هه‌زاران سلاو بۆ گیانی پاکی كاكه‌ ئیدریسی جوانه‌مه‌رگ وماندو نه‌نه‌ناسی ڕێگه‌ی به‌رزی كوردایه‌تیمان.
سه‌رشۆڕی و نه‌مانیش بۆ داگیركه‌ران و دوژمنانی كوردو كوردستان.
ئێستاش پارچه‌ شیعرێكی خۆمتان ێشكه‌ش ده‌كه‌م و گێشكه‌شه‌ به‌ گیانی پاکی بارزانی نه‌مرو هه‌موو گێشمه‌رگه‌یه‌كی ىێبازی بارزانی نه‌مرو ئه‌وانه‌ی هه‌میشه‌ كوردستانیان له‌ هه‌موو شتێ لا مه‌زنتره‌. ..

Kurdistan Photo كوردستان posted a photo:

((وێنه‌كان خۆیان ئه‌دوێن))
قوربانيدانى سه رؤك بارزانى بؤ كوردستان ،ماندووبوونى سه رؤك بارزانى بؤ كوردستان ،دلسؤزى سه رؤك بارزانى بؤ كوردستان كه ئازارى هه موو تاكيكى ئه م خاكه به ئازارى جه سته ى خؤى ده زانيت ميزووش جؤرئه ت ناكات باسى كه وره ى و تيكوشانى نه كات .
Peshmerge kurdistan, Kurdish Fighters& Kurdish struggle for Peace, Freedom and Democracy

jezblog on Flickr posted a photo:

Well its going well......... we are having an interesting time here in Iraq........ but as ever its late its late....... but not too late! ....... Well it is a bit........ I really got to kip......

Cheers Jez XXXXXXX

PS....... I can not put up the pictures from the story we are working on ...... and there is not much else...... cos its difficult to wander off here in Iraq....... hehehehe....... we were enjoying rather wonderful arab sweet tea when i shot this...............

jezblog on Flickr posted a photo:

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. â James Thurber

This is a portrait of Sardar who was running our security team he was a great bloke with a very nice way about him........

Journalists are sometimes in need of security teams ... and you certainly feel a lot safer traveling with a small band of armed security guys on your side when in Iraq ......... but there is a problem working like this ...... we need to be able to approach people and be approachable ...... obviously classic security demands a secure zone of separation from ordinary folks ....... this is completely no good ....... well it might be OK for executives and diplomats ...... but you just cannot work like that as journalist or photojournalist in particular..... if you stay inside a bubble of tight security you will know and see nothing ..... so a security team can lead to problems in doing any journalism ..... but not a team lead by Sardar......... he and his guys gave a very real sense of security........ something you absolutely could never have if you were drifting about on your own ..... but they were also very sensitive to not appearing to be armed heavies....... they primarily appeared as just people assisting to translate and drive etc....... they were very rarely out with their full weaponry openly displayed ....... I have to say they were excellent .......... Sardar in particular really helped us with translation and suggesting pertinent things that might be relevant ...........

Sadly for journalists and others this is Sardar's last day on the job....... myself and the writer on this story were the last journalistic party that he is protecting........... in fact we are the last people he is personally protecting full stop. Sardar is getting married in 10 days and has promised his new wife he will not carry on with this dangerous and unpredictable life on the road ...... he is now after 7 years of close protection...... with this security company....... and 3 years with different American operations ........ finally hanging up his AK-47........ for a desk job......... and very importantly....... a home life .........

Good luck to you and your new wife Sardar....... I wish you both a lovely wedding and a very long blissfully happy married life......... :-)))))))))))))

Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXX

jezblog on Flickr posted a photo:

I have word that Jez is out of Iraq, but not quite home yet. It seems that there's been a delay and he's stuck Germany overnight... so until he can get back online here's an image from the archive captured a few years back of the British army on an operation in the Middle East region.

Cheers, Matt

DTN News posted a photo:

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 31, 2012: Two men were found guilty on Monday of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, the first convictions under Norway's anti-terror laws.

A third defendant was acquitted of terror charges but convicted of helping the others acquire explosives.

Investigators say the plot was linked to the same al-Qaeda planners behind thwarted attacks against the New York subway system and a shopping mall Manchester in 2009.
The Oslo district court sentenced alleged ringleader Mikael Davud, to seven years in prison and co-defendant Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak to three and a half years.

Judge Oddmund Svarteberg said the court found that Davud, a Chinese Muslim, "planned the attack together with al-Qaeda". Bujak was deeply involved in the preparations, but it couldn't be proved that he was aware of Davud's contacts with al-Qaeda, the judge said.

The third defendant, David Jakobsen, who assisted police in the investigation, was convicted on an explosives charge and sentenced to four months in prison – time he's already served in pretrial detention.

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Wisam Allami posted a photo:

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FadY AdnaN posted a photo:

للمَطَر إيقَــآع خَــآص .. يُريح آلقُلوب وَ يُحيي آلنُفوس ♥ !

Emmanuel Smague posted a photo:

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