Raid Gone Awry by Peter Van Agtmael

Photo Credit: Peter Van Agtmael

Peter van Agtmael (b. 1981) graduated from Yale University in 2003 with a degree in history. Following graduation, he spent a year in China on the Charles P. Howland fellowship photographing the effects of the Three Gorges Dam. He became a freelance photographer at the end of 2004.

Since the beginning of 2006, he has documented the consequences of America's wars, at home and abroad. In 2008, he helped organize the exhibition and book Battlespace, a retrospective of unseen work from 22 photographers covering Iraq and Afghanistan.

Raid Gone Awry

General News, second prize stories

3/3/2006

Soldiers walk past a bullet-pocked wall in a home after a late night raid gone awry. Iraqi insurgents opened fire on a joint-force of Iraqi and US troops, severely wounding one American. The combined forces returned fire, killing the insurgent. The night raids were a common occurrence as insurgency increased during the year.

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