Dubai: The Saddam Hussein regime seemed to have collapsed in Baghdad on April 9 with
US troops expanding and consolidating their control and large-scale looting breaking
out in the Iraqi capital amidst scenes of jubilation after three weeks of war.
In London, a spokesman of British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that Iraq's command
and control structures in Baghdad appeared to have broken down and the people there
were giving US troops "very real welcome".
"The most compelling evidence of fast-moving situation is the view that command and
control in Baghdad appears to have disintegrated," he said, but warned, "We need to
be careful and cautious about getting ahead of ourselves because their is localised
paramilitary resistance... it could be stubborn and fierce."
The fate of 66-year-old Saddam Hussein remained uncertain after US bombed a building
in Baghdad where they believed the Iraqi leader was holding a meeting with his two
sons and his close aides on April 7.
PTI
