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2003 | Battle of Baghdad Hussein, Saddam | |
April | Three weeks into the invasion, US-led Coalition forces move into Baghdad, units of the Iraqi Special Republican Guard led the defense of the city |
2003 | Battle of Baghdad Bush, George Walker | |
April 12th | Many Iraqis celebrated the downfall of Saddam by vandalizing the many portraits and statues of him together with other pieces of his cult of personality & the dramatic toppling of a large statue of Saddam in Baghdad's Fardus Square |
April 12th | The final resistance to US forces is mounted but by late afternoon, all fighting had ceased & a total of 34 US soldiers and 2,320 Iraqi soldiers and Fedayeen were killed |
2003 | Battle of Baghdad Hussein, Saddam | |
April 12th | Many Iraqis celebrated the downfall of Saddam by vandalizing the many portraits and statues of him together with other pieces of his cult of personality & the dramatic toppling of a large statue of Saddam in Baghdad's Fardus Square |
April 12th | The final resistance to US forces is mounted but by late afternoon, all fighting had ceased & a total of 34 US soldiers and 2,320 Iraqi soldiers and Fedayeen were killed |