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BAGHDAD (AP) — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, ...

Twenty years after Iraqis and U.S. Marines pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdads Firdos Square, all images of the former leader are long gone.

Pope at Easter: Pray for Ukrainian, Russian people, refugees

Pope at Easter: Pray for Ukrainian, Russian people, refugees

Iraqis and American Marines pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in April 2003 in an iconic moment in the U.S.-led invasion, but the statue was a minor part of the huge number of monuments and palaces Saddam erected to show off his power

So, just talk me through how you felt in 2003, then. were watching images as we talk to you of that famous statue of saddam hussein in baghdad being toppled and peoplejumping around on top of it and it being dragged through the street. how did you feel then, at that moment, when that was all going on? it was... i had mixed emotions. on one hand, i wanted saddam hussein to be gone, and so seeing that statue, his statue being toppled after one year of being set up in firdos square, in baghdad, was...

Yeah. so, just talk me through how you felt in 2003, then. were just watching images as we talk to you of that famous statue of saddam hussein in baghdad being toppled and peoplejumping around on top of it and it being dragged through the street. how did you feel then, at that moment, when that was all going on? it was... i had mixed emotions. on one hand, i wanted saddam hussein to be gone, and so seeing the statue, his statue being toppled after one year of being set up in firdos square, in ba...

Would be much worse, because saddam husseins dictatorship and tyranny, for us, was the maximum level of brutality. so, just talk me through how you felt in 2003, then. were watching images as we talk to you of that famous statue of saddam hussein in baghdad being toppled and peoplejumping around on top of it and it being dragged through the street. how did you feel then, at that moment, when that was all going on? it was... i had mixed emotions. on one hand, i wanted saddam hussein to be gone, a...

Pope at Easter: Pray for Ukrainian, Russian people, refugees

Those who watched silently as Saddam's statue was brought down in 2003 knew better than to celebrate