Iraqi Ambassador to Vietnam Salah Al-Mukhtar faces a picture of Saddam Hussein as he gives a media interview following
news of the advancement of US-led forces into Baghdad and the fall of the 24-year regime of Saddam Hussein. The envoy remained defiant despite the
reports and insisted that he was still the country's representative in communist Vietnam and if he returned to his homeland it would be as a "freedom fighter".
— Reuters
