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Back Stories: Saddam Hussein's Statue Topples

/ CBS New York

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- In today's Back Story, we travel back to April 2003 when Iraqi citizens and U.S. Marines toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square.

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