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Cheering Baghdad Crowds Greet U.S. Marines

The Truth | 09.04.2003 08:01

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of jubilant Iraqis cheered, danced, waved and threw flowers as U.S. Marines advanced through eastern Baghdad and into the center of President Saddam Hussein's capital on Wednesday.

Reuters correspondent Sean Maguire said crowds mobbed a Marine convoy as it drove through the suburbs to the Martyr's Monument, just two miles east of the central Jumhuriya Bridge over the Tigris river.

"These are quite extraordinary scenes," Maguire said after a morning's drive through first the rundown sprawl of Saddam City and then more prosperous, leafy suburbs.

People, mainly young and middle-aged men were chanting, blowing horns and throwing flowers.

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Comments

Display the following 10 comments

  1. does it really matter if Soddem has escaped? — stop the spread of mad cowboy disease
  2. truth will take a little longer — catch 22
  3. Cheering can be taken two ways — Jon wood
  4. If an invading army was rolling past in... — Dannyboy
  5. Those who couldn't cheer — RentaJubilantMob
  6. Iraqis Cheer - Nihilistic Leftists Cry — Mike
  7. Did Reuters report this before or after they — news
  8. I agree... — Paul Edwards
  9. Fuck off mate — Dannyboy
  10. arabs are not savages — justagirl