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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