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A US Marine covers the face of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s statue with the US flag in Baghdad’s Firdos Square April 9 2003. (AFP Photo)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 8, 2013 | Features
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The scene was unforgettable. On April 9 2003, a huge American tank crawled towards Firdos (Paradise) Square in Baghdad, where a large statute of Saddam Hussein stood. The tank was part of a larger convoy traveling from the far end of the...
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A U.S. Marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
by Hamza Mustafa | Mar 25, 2013 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hamid Majid Mousa, secretary-general of the Iraqi Communist Party and former member of the Iraqi Interim Governing Council, believes, “The changes that have come to Iraq ten years after regime change are not worth the sacrifices that the Iraqi...
