Backstories: the photographer and the map – Correspondent

Correspondent

via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/iraq-kuwait-us-invasion-france-back-stories-the-photographer-and-the-map#.VTT2bs4js20

Eric Feferberg tells the extraordinary story of this picture, taken on March 13, 2003, in a US military camp in Kuwait where 130,000 troops were preparing to invade Iraq. Invited to photograph this officers’ briefing – and the top-secret map in the background – he had little idea of the storm that would ensue