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Two years ago today, U.S.-led troops captured ousted Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Burning and throwing stones at a poster of Saddam
Hussein, April 10, 2003.
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KIRKUK, Iraq — The day after Baghdad fell, Iraqi troops abandoned this oil-
rich city in the north. Thousands of peshmerga forces entered the town, looting
and taking over former government buildings.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Saddam Art Center, looted, April 12, 2003.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Shiite men from Saddam City loot government buildings,
April 9, 2003.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqis and U.S. Marines pull down a statue of Saddam
Hussein, April 9, 2003.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — A statue of Saddam Hussein points to a communications

tower bombed by U.S. forces, 2003.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Shiites protesting both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. and
U.K. intervention drag the head of a Saddam statue through town, April 18,
2003.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — A defaced Saddam portrait, April 2003.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Demonstrators parade a bronzed head of Saddam Hussein

through the streets after U.S. troops occupy the capital, 2003.
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