Baghdad, Iraq; April 9, 2003. US Marines tie a chain around the neck of a statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as they prepare to tear it down from its pedestal in Baghdad's Firdos Square. The statue -- the height of about four men -- was one of the symbols of Saddam's rule over Iraq.

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