Statue toppling was managed by Army psy-ops group
The Army's internal study of the war in Iraq criticizes some efforts by its own psychological operations units, but one spur-of-the-moment effort last year produced the most memorable image of the invasion.
As the Iraqi regime was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on Firdos Square in central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein. It was a Marine colonel \ufffd not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images \ufffd who decided to topple the statue, the Army report said. And it was a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team that made it appear to be a spontaneous Iraqi undertaking.
Interesting proof that those who said this was done by the US where right. The only thing they got wrong was the claim that Chalabi was involved somehow, it was a spur of the moment thing by Americans.
Still, the whole thing was run by Americans and staged by an Army psy-op group to look like an Iraqi uprising.
Jay
