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    Restoring the scenes of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.. A comprehensive description of what happen

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    Post by Rocky Sat 11 Mar 2023, 2:05 pm

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    Baghdad today - follow-up
    An Arab press report reviewed the most prominent stations before and during the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
    The American deadline for Saddam Hussein's departure expired on March 20, 2003, but calm was still hanging over Baghdad, and ten thousand kilometers away in the White House, George Bush announced the launch of the operation against Saddam Hussein, and a barrage of passing missiles rained down on a neighborhood of the Iraqi capital.
    At 5:35 in the morning, the war began and the Americans called it "Operation Iraqi Freedom". About 150,000 American soldiers and 40,000 British soldiers were deployed in Iraq to launch a military operation that sparked many condemning demonstrations in many Arab and international capitals.
    Three weeks were enough to decide the fate of the regime and take control of Baghdad on the ninth of April. The preventive war was justified by the presence of nuclear and chemical weapons of mass destruction on Iraqi soil, but in the end, these weapons were not found.
    Fire ball
    Since the first American-British bombing operations began, the Iraqi air defenses responded. Within an hour, three rounds of strikes turned the Baghdad sky into a giant ball of fire, as described by AFP journalists in the country.
    On television, Saddam Hussein, dressed in military fatigues and a black military cap, called for "resistance to the occupiers."
    During the night, tens of thousands of American and British soldiers stormed the south of the country. After 24 hours, the war became an air war par excellence, and its raids reached the presidential palace.
    Wild advances
    On March 25, four thousand Marines crossed the city of Nasiriyah, the main point on the way to Baghdad, which is still 370 km away, crossing the Euphrates River amid fierce fighting.
    Six days later, the US military engaged in a ground battle with units of the Iraqi Republican Guard near the city of Karbala.
    The Americans captured Baghdad Airport on April 4th, while Saddam defied the invaders by descending into a residential neighborhood and saluting the residents.
    System collapse
    On April 9th, the regime collapsed. And the image of toppling a huge statue of Saddam in the center of Baghdad will remain stuck in the memory.
    The statue was pulled from its base by American tanks, then dozens of joyful Iraqis trampled on it in front of cameras and the eyes of the whole world. While some newspapers doubted that the scene was fabricated.
    US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld likened the event to "the fall of the Berlin Wall." As for the Iraqis, they unleashed their anger and violent criticism against Saddam Hussein, whom they called "the executioner".
    Scenes of chaos
    Baghdad sank into chaos. An army of looters stormed the ministries and the homes of officials, and carried off what they had stolen in carts they pulled. The National Museum in the capital, which includes seven thousand years of history, was not immune to looting.
    Kirkuk and Mosul, the largest cities in the north, fell without resistance at the hands of the Kurds, who then withdrew in favor of the Americans. Then Tikrit (180 km north of Baghdad), Saddam's stronghold, surrendered.
    On May 1, the US President declared "the end of battles," while continuing the "war on terror," in front of an aircraft carrier in the sea off California. Above him, a banner read "Mission Accomplished".
    On April 7, the international coalition captured three presidential palaces in Baghdad.
     
    Saddam hiding
    Saddam Hussein disappeared from public view for months, although Washington announced in July the allocation of a $25 million reward for his find.
    After a nine-month hunt, Saddam Hussein, who ruled with an iron fist for 24 years, was arrested on December 13, 2003, after he was found hiding in a hole in the basement of a farm near Tikrit.
    The US civil administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, said at the time, "We caught him." In a video, Saddam appeared tired, lost and dirty, with a long gray beard. Tried and executed by hanging at the end of 2006.
    In early October 2003, a report by international inspectors confirmed that no weapons of mass destruction had been found.
    Accusations of tampering with intelligence increased, targeting George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
    When US forces completed their withdrawal from Iraq in December 2011, after eight years and nine months, the toll from the conflict was colossal.
    From the street fighting in Fallujah to the sectarian fighting and abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraqis have lived through an enormous amount of trauma.
    Between 2003 and 2011, more than 100,000 civilians were killed, according to the "Iraq War Victims" organization, while the United States announced 4,500 deaths among its forces and crews.
    And in May 2022, during an event in Texas, former President George W. Bush made laughter with a slip of the tongue when he spoke about Ukraine, condemning the "totally unprovoked and brutal invasion of Iraq."
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