(17)Saddam's grip on Baghdad collapses

(17)Saddam's grip on Baghdad collapses

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi man prepares to take a sledgehammer to the head of a statute of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as another slaps it with his sandal after the six-meter-high statute was pulled down in central Baghdad on April 9.

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