[Pictures of the Truth of the Country of War] The photo behind the "Push the Statue of Saddam" is not easy to be behind

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] A iconic event that Iraqi War stayed in the memory of the world was that the statue of Saddam, located in the Satama Plaza, the capital of Baghdad, was pushed down. At that time, a strong Iraqi man waving a hammer to smash the statue base was widely circulated and appeared on the front page of major media in the world. This photo has become another symbol of victory in the United States, and it has also become a proof of the Saddam regime that is not allowed to be popular, thereby contrasting the purpose of the United States to invade Iraq to "save the people of Iraq on the fire and fire." The past 20 years have passed, and the time proves that the story behind this photo is not simple.

Hammer and armored vehicle

The Iraqi man who wielded the hammer in the photo called Jabri and operated a motorcycle repair bank in Baghdad. He used to be a weightlifting athlete, alleged that Jabri had been sitting for 11 years for offending Saddam's son, so he hated the Saddam regime. On April 9, 2003, in Victory Plaza, some Iraqi people, including Jabri, were recorded by the media of various countries. But the hammer only damaged the small part of the statue base. At this time, the U.S. military, who had been watching. A armored vehicle with heavy equipment stopped at the scene. The US soldiers put the steel cable on the neck of the statue. As the armored vehicle started, the statue weighed up to one ton finally fell (as shown below).

Later, Western media reports said that there were a lot of doubts about the entire incident, and the "pushing down the statue of Saddam" was more like a play in the U.S. military. First of all, the United States needs such a play. As we all know, the United States started war on Iraq on the grounds of "looking for large -scale lethal weapons". However, after entering Iraq, the U.S. military killed Baghdad all the way. Essence The U.S. military needs an iconic incident to a statement to the world. It is a common practice to demolish the statue of the old regime, but according to media reports, the U.S. military has actually tried several times before, including a shot of a Saddam statue with a tank, but one is that the process is too fast, and the second is that there are not many reporters around the surrounding reporters. More importantly, there were almost no Iraqi people at the scene, and from the perspective of media propaganda, it was "not in line with the requirements." In addition, Shengli Plaza is an ideal place. It is located in the center of Baghdad, where "doing things" here can attract media attention.

"The farther the lens pulls, the closer the truth is"

Some details on the scene are also suspicious. For example, whether it is the hammer used by Jabri to smash the statue, or the ropes around the statue's neck, they are from the US armored vehicle. Another point is that the US television station live broadcast on the entire incident. When a U.S. soldier was put on a steel cable around the statue neck, he first covered a US flag on the face of "Saddam". After one minute, the commander at the scene received a call and asked to replace the US flag for replacement. Iraqi flag. This shows that the upper levels of the US military are likely to pay attention to and remotely control the operation at any time. After a few minutes of collapse of the statue of Saddam, the then Minister of Defense Ramsfield, then the United States, delivered a speech saying, "The free Iraqi people celebrated on the street, and the scene of the dismantling of the statue of the Saddam is exciting."

However, some Western reporters reported that there were not many Iraqi people in the square at the time, and most of them were reporters carrying cameras and cameras. In fact, on the streets of Baghdad, except for the U.S. military was some gangsters who were smashed while chaotic, most locals stayed at home and did not dare to go out. According to a person in charge of the Peninsula TV, he grew up in Baghdad. He found that some Iraqi people who gathered in Victory Plaza at the time were not the local accent of Baghdad. However, in the live broadcast of mainstream American media, the Iraqi people were pushing down to celebrate "Saddam" and cheered. In the shot of Peninsula TV, there are not many people on the square, and most of them are relatively quiet. A Western reporter describes the victory square when the statue of the Saddam falls off: "The farther your lens pulls, the closer to the truth."

Some American scholars conducted a special research on this incident. They believed that the "pushing down the statue of Saddam" incorrectly guided the propaganda of the Iraqi war, which caused three misunderstandings to the entire United States- "The United States was victorious, the war was over, and the war was over. The whole Iraqi rejoiced. " Later history proved that the United States was in the quagmire again, and the Iraqi people did not rejoicing. An American scholar wrote a book for this, the title was called "Ugly War, Beautiful Packaging".

Later, he regretted

Jabri later became a figure, but he expressed his regret in an interview with the media in 2007. After the Saddam regime was overthrown, the Iraqi political situation immediately fell into chaos; the U.S. military did not retreat from Iraq, but continued to look for the so -called "large -scale killing weapons"; just when this government was in a timeless, when other countries still existed, some of them still existed. Anti -government armed forces rose, and Iraq fell into a melee. Over the years, Iraq's economic development has been slow, and many cities are still in the state of power supply, sanitary facilities and clean water, and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have died of various violence conflicts ... Jabri said, "Iraq today," Iraqi today's Iraqi It is full of internal and corruption, corruption, killing and robbery. We overthrew a Saddam that year, but now I regret it because there are 1,000 'Saddam'. "

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