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Whos in charge iraqis ask { April 9 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2533221 http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2533221 Iraqis Ask 'Who's in Charge?' of Baghdad Wed April 09, 2003 04:38 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqis asked on Wednesday who was running their country after U.S. forces swept almost unchallenged through northeastern Baghdad toward the heart of the capital and cheering looters sacked shops and offices. There was no sign of police or government authority on the streets of central Baghdad. Information Ministry officials who have shadowed foreign reporters through nearly three weeks of war were nowhere to be seen on Wednesday. "You are a journalist. Please tell me what is going on. Where is our government? To whom do we belong now? I don't know," said Ammar Moussa, a shopkeeper visiting his wounded son at a Baghdad hospital. "I want to know when all this mess is going to finish. There is no radio, no television. Is our government still in control or not?" asked Sarmed Shakir, a cleaner at the hospital. Baghdad radio, off the air since U.S. tanks stormed into the western half of the city center on Tuesday, could be heard transmitting very faintly on Wednesday. It was broadcasting only patriotic songs. Television remained blank and silent. Jubilant crowds cheered U.S. Marines in east central Baghdad, Reuters correspondent Sean Maguire said. Elsewhere in the capital, witnesses said looters had taken over the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. There was no sign of Iraqi police. Looters also robbed shops around the heavily bombed buildings housing the Iraqi Olympic Committee, headed by President Saddam Hussein's elder son Uday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © Copyright Reuters 2002. All rights reserved. Any copying, re-publication or re-distribution of Reuters content or of any content used on this site, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without prior written consent of Reuters. Quotes and other data are provided for your personal information only, and are not intended for trading purposes. Reuters, the members of its Group and its data providers shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the quotes or other data, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. © Reuters 2002. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.

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