V for ?

This is a picture I found at the BBC website about the destruction of the Al Askari Mosque. In the foreground is an Imam holding a ceremonial turban that was on one of the sacred tombs or whatever.

What interests me is the kid giving the "v" signal in the back. I think he just did it because the camera was there. A little more to his right and it would've been behind the Imam's head.