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March 15-18 - ultimatum and protest March 19-20 - air attack and invasion March 21-24 - "shock and awe" March 25-27 - counterattacks March 28-31 - calm before the storm April 2-4 - red line breached April 5-8 - checkpoint war April 9-10 - fall of Baghdad |
 A statue of Iraq 's President Saddam Hussein falls as it is pulled down in central Baghdad April 9, 2003. Television stations around the world interrupted regular programs to show the same pictures of jubilant Iraqis destroying monuments to Saddam Hussein as U.S.-led troops swarmed across a mostly undefended Baghdad. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) -Thu Apr 10, 8:39 AM ET -Thu Apr 10, 9:48 AM ET
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 Iraqis tear down a picture of President Saddam Hussein in Saddam City, a huge Shi'ite slum in Baghdad, as U.S. troops enter the area April 9, 2003. Iraqis looted major sites in Baghdad as uniformed soldiers and police disappeared from the streets ahead of a U.S. onslaught. (Stringer/Iraq /Reuters)-Wed Apr 9, 7:38 AM ET
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 Iraqi civilians try to install a rope around the neck of a statue of Saddam Hussein to tear it down in downtown Baghdad, Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours) -Wed Apr 9,10:05 AM ET
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 Iraqis pose with a US soldier as they step on a ripped poster of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad. US tanks have rolled into the center of the Iraqi capital.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar) -Wed Apr 9,10:04 AM ET
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