Tuesday, July 5, 2016

The Iraqi man who took a sledgehammer to Saddam’s statue wants him back

The Iraqi man who took a sledgehammer to Saddam's statue wants him back

It is an image seared in the minds of war-ready and war-weary Americans alike. Just weeks after the invasion of Iraq, American armored vehicles bore down on Firdos Square in downtown Baghdad, where an emboldened man had already taken a sledgehammer to the base of a statue of Saddam Hussein. That man, Kadhim Sharif al-Jabouri, had […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/05/the-iraqi-man-who-took-a-sledgehammer-to-saddams-statue-wants-him-back/

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