Firdos Square

The Firdos Square (Paradise Square) is a public square in Baghdad, Iraq, of a wider international audience became known by the falls of the largest Saddam statue on April 9, 2003.

Baghdad is the tallest building, known as the Ishtar Sheraton Hotel (the second tallest structure after the television tower Baghdad, which despite the name but not the Sheraton chain part ) and the 14 -story Palestine Hotel on the square.

The place is now often used for demonstrations, but is not directly in the government district.

Statuary

2002 was prepared for the 65th birthday of the dictator Saddam a huge statue. In 2003, she was effective, staged by critics as the left English journalist Robert Fisk, torn down from the 3rd Battalion 4th Marines. The New Yorker summarizes the doubts together:

The commander Lieutenant Colonel Bryan McCoy had rather spontaneously decided on the initiative of Iraqis gathered to meet the wishes of the local people and at the same time something to offer the many journalists in the hotels on the square.

Today on the base is an abstract sculpture by the artist Bassem Hamad al - Dawiri which is meant to symbolize freedom.