Baghdad: A convoy of US tanks entered the centre of Baghdad on April 9, reports said.
Four tanks and a similar number of personnel carriers with Marines seated on top
arrived at 16:40 hours (local time) from the South East at a huge roundabout with a
statue of Saddam Hussein in the middle.
Dozens of journalists came out from the Palestine Hotel, the media base during the
war which entered its 20th day on April 9, to talk to the Marines.
The hatches of the tanks were open with smiling crew-members exposed, though other
Marines on foot took up precautionary positions on the pavement.
Few members of the Iraqi public were in sight.
