In April 2002, the 12-meter (39 ft) statue was erected in honor of the 65th birthday of Saddam Hussein. In the afternoon of April 9, 2003, a group of Iraqi civilians started to attack the statue.
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Iconic: Edward Chin as he fastened a noose around a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in 2003 Destruction: The noose was attached to a tank which dragged the 40ft statue to the ground Mr Chin, 34, signed up to the Marines in 1999 hoping to earn money for college.
The April 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square in Baghdad shortly after the Iraq War invasion.. The destruction of the Firdos Square statue was an event in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and marked the symbolic end of the Battle of Baghdad.
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I'm going to make a prediction that a strong majority of Americans who oppose Confederate statues being taken out of public squares based on the argument that it denigrates history cheered on the removal of the Saddam Hussein statue in Iraq in 2003.
The museum plans to showcase other tributes from the Iraq war as well, including the suitcase Saddam used to store bundles of $100 bills before his capture by a detachment of 4th Infantry soldiers in December. The museum also plans to get a head, arm and sword from one of the Saddam statues toppled in Tikrit.
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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Iraq War; Part of the Iraqi conflict and the War on Terror: Clockwise from top: U.S. troops at Uday and Qusay Hussein's hideout; insurgents in northern Iraq; an Iraqi insurgent firing a MANPADS; the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square.