The Tribune

Gulf War II — in pictures
April 10, 2003

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A US Marine covers the face of a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with a US flag in Baghdad on April 9, 2003. The gesture, likely to be highly provocative in much of the Arab world, was quickly reversed and an Iraqi flag was tied instead to the statue's neck. Local residents had earlier scaled the 20-foot statue and slipped a noose around its neck to drag it down. — Reuters