Symbol of a sunken regime

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