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Audio slideshow: One woman's war
Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner travelled to Baghdad in 2003 as a freelance reporter determined to get behind the front lines of the war in Iraq. Over the next 18 months she returned to the country several times capturing images of life with the troops - as well as behind the scenes in a psychiatric hospital.

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Photography by Rita Leistner/Redux Pictures www.ritaleistner.com
Produced by Alison Trowsdale

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