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April 10 � Iraqi military and political leaders asked to surrender Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, U.S. military sources told NBC News. �Mosul is essentially in our hands,� one official said. The governor of Mosul and the Iraqi Army Fifth Corps Commander are now working out surrender terms with U.S. Special Forces.

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Kirkuk residents also targeted a bronze statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of the city, pulling it down in an echo of Wednesday�s destruction by Iraqis and U.S. Marines of a large Saddam statue in central Baghdad.
A chain was wrapped around the statue, and tied to an old fire engine, which backed up and brought down the effigy, to the delight of about 100 people gathered around. Some in the crowd jumped on the fallen statue, firing machine guns in celebration and hitting Saddam�s likeness with their shoes � a serious insult in the Arab world.
The bodies of two dead Iraqi soldiers lay near the statue�s base, where the letters �USA� were spraypainted.
The fall of Kirkuk closes off to Iraqi forces the important corridor between Tikrit, President Saddam Hussein�s hometown, which is still held by Iraqi forces, and Mosul in the north.

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On the road into Dibis, running along the western edge of the Kirkuk oilfields, hundreds of Iraqi soldiers in uniform walked down the road without weapons, with some waving at the the peshmergas and shouting, �Hurray America and Britain!� In the town, U.S. and Kurdish forces entered without a fight and residents attacked a tile mural of Saddam, throwing mud, smashing it and again hitting it with their shoes.

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What Iraqi forces were still in the area appeared largely withered. One Iraqi soldier who surrendered after U.S. bombing raids near Mosul said morale was at rock bottom.
�I saw many officers ripping off their epaulettes and throwing down their arms,� Haidar Hatan Khthair said in the village of Pir Daud, where he was held by Kurdish guerrillas and enjoyed a bit of bread and water. �They have no spirit to fight.�

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CHEERS IN THE NORTH
Iraqi Kurds had already flooded the streets of towns in northern Iraq on Wednesday, rejoicing in the downfall of Saddam, who had gassed them and executed them by the thousands.
�He�s gone! He�s gone!� chanted a group of boys dancing in stalled traffic in the Kurdish administrative capital of Irbil on Wednesday. As news spread that U.S. troops had overtaken the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Kurds left their homes and waded onto streets, waving streamers and the yellow starburst flag of their autonomous region.
In Irbil, joy came in many guises. Boys waved hand-drawn American flags. Militiamen held their weapons. People burned photos of Saddam. One car windshield carried a message written in soap: �Bye Bye, Saddam.� A cartoon showed Saddam falling into a garbage bin. About a dozen boys tried without success to sing �The Star-Spangled Banner.�
�There is joy today, but let�s not forget we�ve all shed tears because of Saddam,� said actor Uman Chowshin.

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Originally posted by Vogon Poet:
With the amount of jerking off you've been doing over this war, I pity the fool who does your laundry. . .

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