A young Iraqi stands in front of a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein with...

A young Iraqi stands in front of a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein with a noose around it neck in central Baghdad April 9, 2003. U.S. troops pulled down the 20-foot (six metre) high statue of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad on Wednesday and Iraqis danced on it in contempt for the man who ruled them with an iron grip for 24 years. In scenes reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Iraqis earlier took a sledgehammer to the marble plinth under the statue of Saddam. Youths had placed a noose around the statue's neck and attached the rope to a U.S. armoured recovery vehicle.