Leafing through the new issue of the New Republic, eyes peeled for word on the progress of the magazine's investigation into Scotty Beauchamp (there's no mention), we came across a riveting series of photographs by Ashley Gilbertson--"An Iraq Album" as the magazine titled it. The magazine further explains:

Gilbertson, a freelance photographer for The New York Times, has been traveling to Iraq since 2002. A compilation of his war photography will be published as Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War in October.

The pictures all appear to date from 2004, and many feature scenes from the most violent battle of the war--the battle for Fallujah--in other words, as grim as possible. But, unlike Scotty Beauchamp, pictures don't lie, and some of the shots are extremely disturbing.

Still, there was one caption that caused a bit of head-scratching here. The series leads with this picture of an Iraqi who "tried to extinguish a burning van on Baghdad’s Sadoun Street," and clearly failed. The next line: "The
incident appeared to be unrelated to the war..."

From the new issue of the New Republic.