This American flag famously covered a Saddam statue. ... Marines were met by a few dozen Iraqis who set out, using a sledgehammer and rope, to tear down a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein.

When Saddam Hussein's statue toppled down in Firdos Square in downtown Baghdad in April 9, 2003, the image of an American flag covering the face of Hussein's IE 11 is not supported.

Cpl. Edward Chin, of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, covers the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown in Bagdhad Wednesday, April ...

Marine Sgt. Ed Chin draping the U.S. flag over Saddam Hussein's statue, Baghdad, April 9, 2003. ... he tells me there's an American flag in there and when I get up there, you know, ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, April 10 -- It took Cpl. Edward Chin just seconds to hang an American flag on the head of Saddam Hussein's statue in central Baghdad, but it's a move that's likely to be ...

Chin — the Brooklyn-bred leatherneck famously photographed holding an American flag over the face of a soon-to-be-toppled statue of Saddam Hussein during the April 9, 2003, fall of the Iraqi ...

A US soldier stands in the late Saddam Hussein’s detention cell on the Victory Base Complex in Baghdad. AP Whatever challenges they faced during their assignment, its conclusion may have been ...

A dozen American soldiers became the last, if not the best, friends that Saddam Hussein ever had. The 12 men, drawn from the 551st Military Police Company based in Fort Campbell, Ky., initially for… ...

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