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To: Gummi Bear
She's gone now, done with her tommyrot.
1,321 posted on 04/09/2003 3:39:35 AM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: Prince Charles
Saddam's Rule Crumbles, Looters Rampage
Wed April 9, 2003 06:30 AM ET

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's rule collapsed on Wednesday as jubilant Iraqis welcomed advancing U.S. forces in Baghdad and rampaging looters attacked symbols of his power.

Amid wild scenes, people gutted official buildings, dragging off anything they could carry from airconditioners to flowers.

"People, if you only knew what this man did to Iraq," yelled an old man standing in the road, thrashing at a torn portrait of Saddam with his shoe. "He killed our youth, he killed millions."

Joyful crowds threw flowers and cheered as U.S. Marines drove into the city from the sprawling eastern suburb of Saddam City, home to about two million impoverished Shi'ite Muslims.

"I believe we are on the last leg," Marine Colonel John Toolan

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http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2533780
1,331 posted on 04/09/2003 3:41:26 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Prince Charles
She's gone now, done with her tommyrot.

She's still running her mouth on the CNN WMP feed ("Oh woe is us, how long is it going to take, how long will it take to put our country back together? Where is the government? Where is the government? Well, no one knows!")

1,333 posted on 04/09/2003 3:42:38 AM PDT by umbagi
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