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Yannis Kontos wins FujiFilm Euro Press Photo Award 2004

Yannis Kontos was awarded the 2004 FujiFilm European Press Photo Award for "War in Iraq"


An Iraqi looter holds a white flag as U.S. Marines arrest him and others in the streets of Baghdad part of an operation of searching the city to arrest looters and try to bring order to the Iraqi capital.


Iraqi looters lay down following a U.S. Marines operation of searching the city to arrest looters and try to bring order to the Iraqi capital.

U.S. Marines attend to a wounded comrade that was shot during an exchange of fire at the Saddam medical city hospital. The Marine died shortly after of his wounds. The Pentagon identified the soldier as being Cpl. Jesus A. Gonzalez, 22, of Indio, Calif., who was killed while manning a checkpoint in Baghdad. He was assigned to 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif.