He and the other 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. The Iraqis’ efforts stalled.

Marine Sgt. Ed Chin draping the U.S. flag over Saddam Hussein's statue, Baghdad, April 9, 2003. CBS News ...

At this time, troops started using ropes to pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein. Casey recalls, “I went to my humvee to get some water, and my back was to the statue.

An Iraqi man who famously took a sledge hammer to a statue of Saddam Hussein during the U.S. invasion 15 years ago looks back at what has happened to his country since then.

He said it was the left leg of a statue of the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The statue had stood in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, and was famously toppled during the American invasion, in 2003.

The photos of the Saddam Hussein statue being toppled were iconic images of the fall of the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on this day in 2003. More for You.

In a scene televised live throughout the world, Iraqi citizens in the heart of Baghdad -- with help from a large U.S. military vehicle -- toppled a huge statue of Saddam Hussein Wednesday and ...

The toppled statue of Saddam Hussein is seen in Firdos Square downtown Baghdad in this April 9, 2003, file photo. The statue was taken down by a US marines and Iraqis as American troops entered ...

On April 9, 2003, Iraqis, with help from Americans, toppled a 20-foot-tall statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square.

Paul Wood was in Paradise Square when Iraq's most famous statue of Saddam Hussein came crashing down. He remembers what it was like and analyses the furious debate still raging over how the event was ...

Iraqis and American Marines pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in April 2003 in an iconic moment in the U.S.-led invasion ...

BAGHDAD -- Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines ...