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Briefly draped american flag over statue Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DBT000579.htm http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DBT000579.htm 09 Apr 2003 14:44:44 GMT U.S. troops drape Saddam statue in American flag BAGHDAD, April 9 (Reuters) - U.S. troops briefly draped an American flag over the face of a giant statue of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad on Wednesday as they prepared to topple it in front of a crowd of Iraqis. The gesture, likely to be highly provocative in much of the Arab world where the U.S. invasion of Iraq has stirred widespread anger, was quickly reversed and an Iraqi flag was tied instead to the statue's neck. Local residents had earlier scaled the 20-foot (six metre) statue and slipped a noose around its neck to drag it down.

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