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UPDATE TUESDAY 4/15 NPR scrambles to discover Coalition atrocities. Here we are 04/15 and the Marines are still trying to avoid getting killed by Fayadeen in Bagdad and PBR is doing one of their audio interviews in a middle-class neighborhood in the city. The moderator expresses her surprise that the immediate vicinity looks like a war zone- describing the ugly canisters of unexploded cluster bombs scattered about the area and how, just a couple of days previously, two civilians were killed when one went off. A citizen complains that US forces had said they'd come today to start clearing out...

A U.S. Marine M88 armored recovery vehicle pulls down a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), April 9, 2003. Jubilant Iraqis tied a noose around a huge statue of Saddam in the heart of Baghdad and pelted it with shoes as the Iraqi president's 24-year rule collapsed in chaos Photo by Reuters Tv/Reuters