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.
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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