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Cross Swords - Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, 2004

Cross Swords - Baghdad

2004 Baghdad, Iraq

The Swords of Qadisiyyah monument, popularly known as the Cross Swords, photographed in Baghdad in 2004. The pair of giant crossed sabers, commissioned under Saddam Hussein's government, was built to commemorate the Iran-Iraq War.

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