That Was The Week

That Was The Week

Liberation Day Unclothed

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Keith Teare
May 03, 2016
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Robert Fisk in Baghdad on April 9th 2003. Writing for the daily UK Broadsheet, The Independent.

A day that began with shellfire ended with a once-oppressed people walking like giants


10 April 2003

The Americans “liberated” Baghdad yesterday, destroyed the centre of Saddam Hussein’s quarter-century of brutal dictatorial power but brought behind them an army…

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