Symbol of a sunken regime

SCORCHED and bomb-blasted, it is one of the last pathetic defiant symbols of Saddam Hussein’s sunken regime.

Symbol of a sunken regime

The Iraqi tyrant's massive presidential yacht was still afloat yesterday, and drifting aimlessly with the tide on the Shatt-al-Arab waterway beside Basra's dockyards.

Local bystanders counted 16 different bombs, shells and missiles plough into it during the two-week siege of Iraq's second city.

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