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Thorne Anderson: From Checkpoint to Grave
![From Checkpoint to Grave Mourners prepare to lower the body of Sheikha Beijiya into her grave in a cemetary near Fallujah. The elderly woman was killed -- along with her daughter, son-in-law, and one-year-old grandson -- by American soldiers who say they opened fire on the family's car when it failed to stop at a temporary checkpoint on the road from Fallujah to Baghdad.](http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5ebf287c7d/images/thorne009-2.jpg)
From Checkpoint to Grave,
Fallujah - 09/27/03
Mourners prepare to lower the body of Sheikha Beijiya into her grave in a cemetary near Fallujah. The elderly woman was killed -- along with her daughter, son-in-law, and one-year-old grandson -- by American soldiers who say they opened fire on the family's car when it failed to stop at a temporary checkpoint on the road from Fallujah to Baghdad.
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