Twenty years ago the fall of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, considered one of the symbols of the queen.
Here is the news that announced the culling on April 9, 20
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+++ IRAQ: BAGHDAD, DOWN SADDAM STATUE IN AL FERDOUS SQUARE +++ (ANSA) - AMMAN, APRIL 9 - The statue of Saddam Hussein
in Al Ferdous square and considered one
of the symbols of the regime
was thrown down by the crowd
with the help of an American tank .
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09-APR-03 16:49 NNNN
It took almost two hours, then the statue of Saddam Hussein, the symbol of a regime in defeat under the advance of the Americans, collapsed, slowly, gently, before breaking and falling to the ground, where it is was met by a small crowd of Iraqis who trampled and jumped on it in Paradise Square in central Baghdad.
The bronze statue, one of hundreds of Saddams, was inaugurated on April 28, 2002, on the occasion of the rais's 65th birthday.
Around, on the square, 37 columns have been erected, like the year of Saddam's birth, 1937, with the inscription SH in Arabic characters.
A few dozen Iraqis gathered in the late afternoon on the square, in front of the international press hotels, where the American tanks had just arrived.
They climbed onto the statue of a standing Saddam, with his right hand raised and his gaze turned to the horizon.
They put a noose around the monument, about a dozen meters.
With a pickaxe and a sledgehammer they hit the pedestal, but only managed to scratch it.
Then they called for help the marines who arrived with a tank.
After having harnessed Saddam with a large chain, the statue - humiliated with an American flag on its face, however immediately removed - is
been fired upon by the armored car.
But she didn't immediately snap.
The tall figure of the rais first bent, remaining attached with his feet.
Then, slowly, she broke, falling to the ground, as Iraqis yelled at Saddam.