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Saddam Hussein's statues and images are long gone in Baghdad 20 years later, but much of the hope that came in wiping away Saddam’s oppressive visual presence has also evaporated.
Saddam Hussein's statues and images are long gone in Baghdad 20 years later, but much of the hope that came in wiping away Saddam’s oppressive visual presence has also evaporated.
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, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein in front of his salon in Baghdad's Firdos Square.
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, 2003, wh
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, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein in front of his salon in Baghdad’s Firdos Square. The 12-meter (39-foot) statue of the…