Iraqi Who Began Saddam Statue Topple: "I Regret It"

This is pretty sad. Qaffim Al-Jabbouri, a motorcycle repairman, was the first Iraqi on the scene at the now famous statue of Saddam Hussein following the U.S. invasion. His symbolic sledgehammering of the statue's base led to the staged destruction of it - a deed he now says he never should have started.

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• Iraq
• war
• saddam
• statue

[webtmh]

this just showed how Americans fucked up the situation. Saddam should have been taken down, obviously, but if they were going to get involved they should have been more tackfull, and put an iraq flag over the statue's face and not an american one.

[ariakokoschka]

Staged just like the toppling of statue: gathering no more than 300 "paid" Arabs (half not even Iraqis) to march to the square and make noises. Cameras zoomed close enough to have everyone in the picture frame but the reality was a view from farther down, it was obvious, the square was 80% empty. It was clearly staged for American public and the world. Keep up fooling yourself.

[TonyBeanify]

@Commissar1215 Don't be crazy, they hate US caz US is occupying their holy land. Simple as that.

[koningkaas]

@paleocon23 wow this comment is 3 years old, xd lotsa things happened since i made that comment..

That being said, i have family in america who has been affected by it... also.. nazism was (partly maybe mostly) given rise to by america and co.. hell you guys even had a nazi party in america... funding both side's of the war and all that..

But, i can see how the comment i made might be offensive , i was 17 years at the time so i've grown somewhat :p

[paleocon23]

@koningkaas screw you, you didn't lose anyone on 9/11 and its certainly not your country that saved the world from nazism and communism.

[46668891]

tackfull" LOL.

Tactful.

[XFGDude]

Wait... let me get this straight.

So this guy complains, gets thrown into prison, and now that he's out of prison, he complains about the country that gave him the right to complain?

lol, k...

[SeeingThingsClearly]

I bet CNN made up the story about the Saddam's sons stealing the motorcycles than throwing the guy in prison for complaining. CNN are great myth-makers who tell tall tales all day long and call it "news".

[Xiahoud]

Its ironic how when the statue fell - the country was no longer in control due to looting and gangs, then a civil war, suicide bombings and a corrupt government (Which now Iraqi-Iranies control).

[rdavola]

Iraq, Please throw out the banksters since we Americans cant seem to rein in our military industrial complex.

[ken42b]

Nah, the removal of the statue was staged by US military anyways. And no, this is no "conspiracy shit" circulating in the web. There's plenty of news coverage revealing the toppling of the statue was staged by US troops.

Just search on youtube for "saddam statue fake" or on google.

LA Times wrote

"It was a Marine colonel -- not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images -- who decided to topple the statue, the Army report said."

[ayadtuma1]

God damn on and on all the bastards jiboury