Saddam's fall
and Iraqi people's reaction!
Islamists and Muslims all over the
world reacted very violently to the sad demise of Saddam Hussein.
Although Saddam was a tyrant par excellence, common Muslims and Islamists
throughout the world reacted instantaneously to Saddam's removal from power
in Iraq. Not only the common men but also such TV station as Al-Jazeera
joined the band wagon to demonize Bush and the U.S. army ad infinitum.
While an intense war was raging
from March 21, 2003 through April 16, 2003, in Iraq, Muslims all across
the globe were predicting that Allah would send heavenly soldiers and birds
carrying clay stones to annihilate the invading U.S. army. However,
to their dismay, no heavenly army nor any birds came down from sky to aid
Saddam's elite republican guard. Another Islamic myth was shattered
and Muslims' ego were devastated.
Here are some photos to show what
did happen in Iraq at the end of the war:
An Iraqi boy flashes a victory
sign as he walks with U.S. soldiers shortly after they entered central
Baghdad, April 9, 2003. Jubilant Iraqis danced on a toppled statue of Saddam
Hussein and dragged its severed head through the streets of Baghdad as
celebration and rampant looting marked the Iraqi leader's downfall. (Photo
by Kyodo/Reuters)
US Marines patrol Baghdad's
Saddam City neighborhood. US troops have entered without resistance overnight
into the teeming northeast Shiite suburb where massive acts of looting
were reported in the morning, witnesses reported.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
After a short fire fight in
Sayyid Muhammad, a few kilometers northeast of Baghdad, a man tries to
declare his innocence as he is questioned as suspects are rounded up, stripped
and interrogated by the U.S. Marine Scouts of the Second Tank Battalion,
April 9, 2003. (Reuters/Dallas Morning REUTERS/Dallas News/Cheryl Diaz
Meyer
An Iraqi man kisses the
hand of Capt. Andy Maclean of Task Force 2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat
Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning, Georgia, as troops pushed
deeper into Baghdad, April 9, 2003. (Reuters/Dallas Morning News/David
Leeson)
Baghdad residents raise their
hands as they approach U.S. Army soldiers Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP
Photo/John Moore)
An Iraqi boy holds a white
flag as U.S. soldiers (not shown) are welcomed shortly after they entered
central Bagdhad April 9, 2003. (Reuters/Kyodo).
Iraqi children display a one
hundred dinar note with an image of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) on
it near Basra in southern Iraq, April 8, 2003. Reuters/Bruce Adams/Daily
Mail
U.S. Special Forces take a
position in a Baghdad intersection, near a portrait of Saddam Hussein,
Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/John Moore)
Iraqi children watch U.S. Marines
after they took control of the Ministry of Oil building in Baghdad Wednesday,
April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
An Iraqi boy greets a U.S.
Army soldier during an effort to distribute food and water to Iraqi citizens
in need, near Al-Najaf, Iraq, April 8, 2003. Reuterss/Arlo K. Abrahamson
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