A US soldier watches workers preparing to dismantle one of the giant bronze busts of Saddam Hussein at the former presidential palace in Baghdad.  [AFP]

A crane lifts one of four giant bronze busts of Saddam Hussein from one of the palaces in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday December 2, 2003. The cost of the sculptures' removal is said to be about $27,000. [AP]

U.S. helicopters fly over the area as workers dismantle one of the four giant bronze busts of Saddam Hussein that have long dominated Baghdad's skyline, Tuesday.  [AP]

A crane puts down one of four giant bronze busts of Saddam Hussein from one of the palaces in Baghdad, Iraq December 2, 2003.  [AP]

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