The Associated Press photographer Maya Alleruzzo was based in Baghdad for more than four years, covering the 2007 troop surge and the end of combat operations. She has returned to see how the city has changed, visiting the scenes of photographs taken by colleagues over the past 10 years
A boy plays on a climbing frame in the Zawara amusement park in Baghdad on a Thursday afternoon, the beginning of the weekend. Hugely popular, new parks and public spaces have been springing up across the city.
From the series: Baghdad, 10 years after the Iraq invasion by Peter Beaumont
Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell takes us through some of his work at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and shares his views on the decisions made by George Bush and Tony Blair. He explains how he represents the reality of ‘shock and awe’. Cartoons are often seen as a low art form which is generally humorous, says Bell – but much of his Iraq war work is grisly
Cartoon: Steve Bell
As the magazine celebrates its 50th birthday, cartoonist and author Nick Newman selects its funniest front pages
A free exhibition of cartoons and covers, Private Eye: The First 50 Years, runs at the V&A museum until 8 Jan 2012. All covers reproduced by kind permission of Private Eye magazine, private-eye.co.uk
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war.
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials who dealt with his claims, has told the Guardian that he fabricated tales of mobile bioweapons trucks and clandestine factories in an attempt to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime, from which he had fled in 1995.
“Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right,” he said. “They gave me this chance. I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy.”
- Read the full story and watch a video interview with Curveball on guardian.co.uk
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