Born in Belgrade in 1969, Goran Tomasevic started working for Reuters as a freelance photographer in 1996 during the anti-Milosevic demonstrations. He was based Baghdad during the Iraq conflict, in Jerusalem during tense times between the Israelis and Palestinians, and is now senior photographer in Egypt. In the following story, slugged AFGHAN-MARINE and headlined 'WITNESS-Sergeant William Bee, May 18, 2008', he recalls a rare sequence of split-second shots he took of a U.S. Marine in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

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