'On another recent night raid near Muqdadiyah -- based on a tip from the Iraqi police -- U.S. soldiers rolled out in six Humvees expecting to find a half-dozen al-Qaeda in Iraq members in a meeting. Instead they found a crying mother and her terrified 13-year-old boy. "Tell him, since he's the oldest one in the house, he's the man of the house, he needs to man-up and stop hiding behind his mother," 1st Lt. Christopher Nogle, 23, of Orlando, instructed his interpreter. The boy covered his face and sobbed. It was 3 in the morning. He said he didn't know where his father had gone. "Does he love his father?" Nogle asked. "Does he want to see him again?" The small barefoot boy shook with fear and said nothing. "Ask him where his father hides his weapons," Nogle demanded. "I swear to God I don't know," the boy said. "He is not a man, he is scared," said his mother, who was also wailing. "He needs to quit crying. He's responsible for everybody in here right now since his father left; his father abandoned everybody else," Nogle told the boy through his interpreter. "Tell him when his father comes back later tonight or tomorrow that he needs to have a talk with his father, that his father is doing very bad things and it's getting the whole family in trouble." Washpo
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I wonder if the reporter who wrote this piece was aware of the existence of this famous picture.
We have not had an art quiz for a while:
- Title?
- Artist?
- Where does it hang?
- What is the supposed story told by the picture?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/21/AR2007042101467.html?hpid=topnews
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