TIKRIT, 140 kilometers to the northwest of Baghdad. This is the last city to fall to the US-British coalition. This is also the city where citizens have been the most defiant in proclaiming their pride as Iraqis and their support for Saddam Hussein.

None of the statues or pictures of Saddam in this area were demolished or defaced by ecstatic crowds as happened in other cities—Baghdad, Mosul, and Kirkuk—that had earlier fallen to