A US Marine slides down the marble handrail in Saddam’s extravagant palace built in his home town of Tikrit, Iraq on April 14, 2003.
The Palace is not only enormous, but contains rugs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a river was re-routed to pass the palace as a show of the Hussein families wealth.
Tikrit was the last major city in Iraq to fall, and many people felt it symbolized the end of the fighting in Iraq. (Photo by Ashley Gilbertson / VII Network)
