pilgrimage_iraq0... Mohammed Ramzanali, group leader, organising passports and tickets from members of the group, on the way to Damascus, Syria, 26.02.04

pilgrimage_iraq0... British group doing their morning prayers on Ashura's day. Kerbala, 01.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq0... Group visiting Bab-e-Sagheer, where the heads of Kerbala's martyrs are kept. 27.02.04

pilgrimage_iraq0... Sameer Ali Hasham, from Middlesex, praying inside Syedarokia (Bibi Sakina)'s shrine, Damascus, Syria. 27.02.04

pilgrimage_iraq0... Paraying at Bab-e-Sagheer, where the heads of Kerbala's martyrs are kept. Damascus, Syria. 27.02.2004

pilgrimage_iraq0... Praying at Bab-e-Sagheer, where the heads of Kerbala's martyrs are kept. Damascus, Syria. 27.02.2004

pilgrimage_iraq0... Ansar Shah and a friend from Bolton during the recitations at Bab-e-Sagheer, where the heads of Kerbala's martyrs are kept. Damascus, Syria. 27.02.2004

pilgrimage_iraq0... Praying on Ashura's eve. Kerbala, 01.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq0... Pakistani pilgrims doing the zanjeer (chains with sharp blades) inside the Imam Hussein shrine on Ashura day, Karbala. 02.03.2004

pilgrimage_iraq1... group on mini-bus towards Kerbala. Mohammed Ramzanali, the group leader, is reciting the tragedy of Kerbala bringing Mubarak Ali to tears. 29.02.04

pilgrimage_iraq1... Arbab Jafri reciting during a bus trip. 29.02.04

pilgrimage_iraq1... Nadeem Abbas from London talking to Ansar Shah from Bolton. Kerbala, 04.03.03

pilgrimage_iraq1... Group trying to attach the couch to the back of a lorry that stopped for help on the motorway, somewhere between the border with Jordan and Baghdad. 28.02.04

pilgrimage_iraq1... stuck in the desert, west Iraq, 05.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq1... Group inside a bus that transported them from the desert to a filling station. West Iraq, 05.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq1... Group at hotel in Damascus Syria. 27.02.03

pilgrimage_iraq1... Ansar Shah from Bolton near the shrine for Imam Mehdi, Nahar-e-Furad, Karbala, 04.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq1... Zainab Sumar holding Zahra Noor, touching the holy water by the shrine of Imam Mehdi, Nahar-e-Furad, 04.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq1... Channel 4 crew interviewing Nadeem Abbas for documentary on this historical event. Karbala, 29.02.04

pilgrimage_iraq2... qama zanni, Ashura day. Kerbala, 02.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq2... Collapsing during Ashura's Qamma Zanni ceremony. Kerbala, 02.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq2... procession Kerbala, 01.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq2... After the explosions, some American tanks arrived to inspect the crowds. Here, a soldier takes a picture of the defying crowd. Kerbala, 02.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq2... turmoil on the streets soon after the explosions, Ashura day. Kerbala, 02.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq2... kufa, 03.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq2... Destroyed building at the outskirts of Baghdad. 29.02.2004

pilgrimage_iraq2... Filling station in the middle of the desert on the motorway, somewhere between the border with Jordan and Baghdad. 28.02.04

pilgrimage_iraq2... Shrine for Hazrat Abbas. Kerbala, 01.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq2... Flags in the air on Ashura's eve. Kerbala, 01.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq3... an Iranian family waits for a public bus to take a dead relative away from the hospital. Kerbala, 04.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq3... Girl on Ashura's eve. Kerbala, 01.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq3... women's procession, Ashura day. Kerbala, 02.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq3... girl on women's procession, Kerbala, 01.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq3... poster on sale, Kerbala, 01.03.04

pilgrimage_iraq3... A young man drives down the road in Karbala. 01.03.2004

pilgrimage_iraq3... Women shopping in the centre of Karbala. 04.03.2004