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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (16679)4/9/2003 8:49:36 AM
From: JakeStraw  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
Baghdad's Saddam City cheers end of 'tyrant'
U.S. senior officer: Most Iraqi troops in capital have given up
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Posted: 7:50 AM EDT (1150 GMT)
cnn.com

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- As residents on the outskirts of Baghdad took to the streets in celebration, the center of the Iraqi capital was relatively quiet Wednesday, a sharp contrast to previous days.

Some residents hoping to return to their daily routines in the capital appeared to be lying low, amid uncertainty about whether pro-Saddam Hussein militias might be preparing more attacks.

But in the Baghdad suburb of Saddam City, residents were in the streets, celebrating the apparent end of the Iraqi regime. A Shiite Muslim leader told a group of 400 to 500 people, "The tyrant of the world is finished, thanks to the coalition. Thank God for Iraq the victorious."
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