SUMMARY: Iraqis we saw Wednesday seemed more liberated than invaded. Even the most ardent opponents of the Iraq war must have felt a twinge of ambivalence Wednesday, confronted by televised scenes of ...
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad on Thursday to mark the sixth anniversary of the city's fall to U.S. troops, and to ...
BAGHDAD — In 2003, when Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq, a woman named Hamdiyah al-Dulaimi had three handsome sons. They had grown into good men with wives and families. They were the shining ...
MOSCOW — Russia had a military intelligence unit operating in Iraq up through the 2003 U.S. invasion and fall of Baghdad, a Russian analyst said Friday as the Pentagon reported Moscow fed Saddam ...
BAGHDAD -- Ten years ago, a statue fell in Baghdad’s Firdous Square. Joyful Iraqis helped by an American tank retriever pulled down their longtime dictator, cast as 16 feet of bronze. The scene ...
Most Iraqis whom Anderson interviewed before the war -- whether inside Iraq or in exile in Jordan or Iran -- did not view the prospect of a U.S. occupation kindly. Many suspected that Washington's ...
The image of bombardment in Baghdad that appeared on the Guardian’s front page on 21 March 2003. Photograph: Ramzi Haidar/EPA In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad on Thursday to mark the sixth anniversary of the city's fall to U.S. troops, and to ...
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