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Baghdad in turmoil as regime folds
Saddam's regime appears to have folded. The people of Baghdad have come out onto the streets, cheering US Marines and looting shops and government buildings. Television pictures from Baghdad show a city in anarchy, with Iraqi police and soldiers nowhere to be seen. Civilians could be seen attacking posters of Saddam as they celebrated their new-found freedom. ITV News correspondent Neil Connery, in Baghdad, said it feels like "the lid has been lifted off a pressure cooker". The looting came as US ground forces roll into the city, with US military commanders claiming the majority of Iraqi forces in the city have deserted. Journalists in the city reported that their regime "minders" did not appear as usual this morning.

Looks like Sammy was either in that restaurant, or that as soon as the restaurant went "boom" he lit out for parts unknown. If he's in Tikrit, it'll only be for long enough to stuff the national treasury into a few suitcases and catch a cab for Syria.

And for once the Iraqi information minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf did not appear to insist the regime would triumph. However, the US military has said it is "premature" to say that Baghdad has been taken over. And UK intelligence sources have said Saddam Hussein is probably still alive despite a US air strike at a restaurant in the Mansour district of the city.
Posted by: Bulldog 2003-04-09
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