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Coalition tanks move along a road adjacent to the Tigris River, with fires burning in the foreground, Monday, April 7, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites). U.S. troops stormed into the heart of Baghdad on Monday, seizing key buildings including one of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces on the Tigris River and the Information Ministry. (AP Photo/APTN)

Men believed to be Iraqi soldiers, seen in an image from video, roll down an embankment and into the Tigris River under supressive fire from coalition tanks Monday, April 7, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/APTN)

Iraqi soldiers, background right, are seen leaving their postions as shells from U.S. tanks rolling into Baghdad explode nearby, on the banks of the Tigris river outside Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s presidential palace, Monday April 7, 2003. Coalition soldiers took over key buildings Monday, as gunfire and explosions thundered in many parts of the battered Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

96 posted on 04/07/2003 2:46:25 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty (Mean people SUCK!)
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A statue of President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) stands in front of a mosque in Baghdad's al-Fardous square(AFP/File/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)[but not for long.]

U.S. Army vehicle from the 4th Battalion 64 Armor Regiment 'Assasins' smashes a statue of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) outside the Iraqi Republican Guard's Medina Division headquarters south of Baghdad Saturday, April 5, 2003. U.S. forces took over the compound Saturday, which had been heavily bombed by the U.S.-led airstrikes and abandoned by Iraqi forces.(AP Photo/John Moore)

An engineer from the 326th Engineer Battalion sets charges on a Saddam Hussein statue in Najaf. The Army blew up the statue as local citizens celebrated.

Iraqis cheer as the 101st Airborne destroys a statue of Saddam Hussein on Thursday in Najaf, Iraq.

I saw the statue of Saddam on his steed get blown to dust on the tellie but haven't located a picture yet.

Think I'll go to bed now. Good night. :-)

97 posted on 04/07/2003 3:49:32 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty (Mean people SUCK!)
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