TEMPO reporter Rommy Fibri witnessed many events in Baghdad ahead of its fall, including the US tank-round slamming into the Palestine Hotel and the posters and statues of Saddam Hussein being destroyed. Here are his notes.

Sunday, April 6

From Friday, April 4, large numbers of American forces had been present at the Saddam International Airport. But the explosions of bombs and artillery shells could still be heard coming from the Sout