Where did Saddam Hussein statue's hand go? Marines need hand locating Iraq War trophy. It's coming up on 15 years since Marine Corps veteran Kelly Mercer saw the hand of the statue of Saddam Hussein.
Mr Chin, 34, signed up to the Marines in 1999 hoping to earn money for college. The U.S. declared war on Saddam's dictatorial regime in March 2003 – 10 years ago last week – and quickly overwhelmed his under-powered troops.
The toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square in Baghdad shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The destruction of the Firdos Square statue was an event in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that marked the symbolic end of the Battle of Baghdad.
It is an image seared in the minds of war-ready and war-weary Americans alike. Just weeks after the invasion of Iraq, American armored vehicles bore down on Firdos Square in downtown Baghdad, where an emboldened man had already taken a sledgehammer to the base of a statue of Saddam Hussein.
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Saddam Hussein statue toppled in Bagdhad, April 2003 – video A statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square, downtown Bagdhad, on 9 April 2003. Hundreds flock into the capital's main square and attempt to pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader.
The Marine whose flag was used to cover the face on the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square before it was toppled at the beginning of the war with Iraq, has refused to lend the memento to the Marines on the 10th anniversary—to the day—of that televised event.
This week sees the release of the long-awaited Chilcot enquiry into the Iraq war. Ahead of its publication, our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen has returned to the country, and he spoke to one man who helped topple the famous statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos square – but now says he wants to put it back.
The Guardian's Sean Smith witnessed one of the defining moments of the Iraq war when a statue of Saddam Hussein was upended by US forces on 9 April 2003
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