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17 December 2020 11:04 AM
17 years ago Saddam Hussein had just been captured and I was on my way across the desert to to Baghdad, to write this...
'MISERABLE makeshift tombstones, hacked out of polystyrene, marked the place where they had hurriedly buried the body-parts hosed from the road in the poor suburb of Al Bayaah.
A grimy, tense crowd stood and stared among the puddles as rescue workers gathered up the debris from yet another explosion in Baghdad. I asked them who they blamed.