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First Place
Georges Gobet
Agence France-Presse
"Fright"
Second Place
Alex Brandon
The Times-Picayune
"Falling Wall"
third Place
Aleksei Shinkarenko
Getty Images
"Moment Of Impact"
award of excellence
Jerome Delay
The Associated Press
"PEACEFUL SURRENDER"
award of excellence
Tyler Hicks
The New York Times
"Iraqi Prison Guard"
award of excellence
Jun-Yi Lin
The Associated Press
"boat Fire"
award of excellence
Brian Plonka
The Spokesman-Review
"Forced entry"
award of excellence
Mona Reeder
The Dallas Morning News
"Struggle for control"
award of excellence
Tyler Hicks The New York Times
"Iraqi Prison Guard" An Iraqi soldier chases relatives of prisoners at a crowded prison cell as tens thousands of Iraqi prisoners wait to storm out of the country's most notorious prison at Abu Ghraib, 20 miles west of Baghdad on Sunday after Saddam Hussein declared an amnesty, and emptied most of the countries prisons. The government gave no figure for the number released but human rights groups have estimated that Iraqi prisons hold tens of thousands of political prisoners in addition to then of thousands of others held for criminal offenses. Chaos developed throughout the vast prison compound after thousands of relatives broke through the main gates and raced to at least a dozed prison buildings, in some cases spotting imprisoned family members while they were still attempting to break out of the breeze block holding compounds.
 
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