at last we reach bass from the euphrates and the tigris meet. travellers once called the city the venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job. that nobody knows of there's no work in the situation is unlivable i say yes it was better before. conversely if we talk about security and civic respect we can say it was a hundred percent better under saddam. today there's no respect for the citizens and as if we were no longer men that's the truth that's honestly what i feel. we are less and less respected before an iraqi could walk by this head held high anywhere in the world and especially at home as long as the state was not affected or undermined things have changed a lot i can tell you the situation was much better before. the venice of the self was awash with detritus of all kinds half of the inhabitants are unemployed it's a humanitarian and social disaster area. here we have absolutely nothing. where we

we had for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. to. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols are iraqi wearing uniforms of blind by the u.s. the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal. here once through the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein. on april ninth two thousand and three it was torn to the ground and the united states believed it of wonder will. nine years have passed the square is a. and the city appears to be in a state of siege. oh is that our passenger alley theater director back from exile in paris waited for a long time to see his enemy for all and return to his native city. when i was thrown in prison and when i got out i was given five days to leave baghdad and iraq that gave me to. put folly the combat continues. i do through theater that he h

we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. to. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a bitter fragile peace the patrols are iraqi wearing uniforms supplied by the u.s. the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own count. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal. here once to the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein. on april ninth two thousand and three it was torn to the ground and the united states believed it of wonderful. nine years have passed the square is empty and the city appears to be in a state of siege. oh is that our passenger alley a theater director back from exile in paris waited for a long time to see his enemy fall and return to his native city. where i was thrown in prison and when i got out i was given five days to leave baghdad and iraq jamie to. put folly the combat continues. and is through theater that he hopes to

at last we reach bastrop where the euphrates and the tigris meet. travel is once called the city of venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job of a that nobody knows of there's no work in the situation is unlivable i say yes it was better before. conversely if we talk about security and civic respect we can say it was one hundred percent better under saddam. today there's no respect for the citizens and as if we were no longer men that's the truth that's honestly what i feel. we are less and less respected before in iraq you could walk with his head held high anywhere in the world and especially at home as long as the state was not affected or undermined things have changed a lot i can tell you that the situation was much better before. the venice of the self was awash with detritus of all kinds half of the inhabitants are unemployed it's a humanitarian and social disaster area. here we have absolutely noth

at last we reach bass from the euphrates and the tigris meet. travellers once called the city the venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good it before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job of it that nobody knows of there's no work in the situation is unlivable i say yes it was better before. conversely if we talk about security and civic respect we can say it was a hundred percent better under saddam. today there's no respect for the citizens as if we were no longer men that's the truth that's honestly what i feel for ya. we are less and less respected before an iraqi could walk by this head held high anywhere in the world and especially at home as long as the state was not affected or undermined things have changed a lot i can tell you that the situation was much better before. the venice of the self was awash with detritus of all kinds half of the inhabitants are unemployed it's a humanitarian and social disaster area. here we have absolutely n

a relaxing evening along the banks of the tigris overseen by the palace of the local hero sadam. saddam was always surrounded by members of his own tribe and many here miss the man who built a sunni state much to their advantage. they came in just for the americans didn't come here to look for weapons of mass destruction nor to hunt down certain are saying they came to rob us and to kill us ation iraq was a unified country but at the moment when they arrived as the americans that triggered divisions by creating ethnic conflicts just you know this very well. they destroyed everything and then they left but they don't know but in reality they're still here they make people think they've gone but they're still present their aim is to create discord in iraq with all my other self. as we leave tikrit we come to a village the heart of saddam hussein's kingdom where he was finally caught. on december fourteenth two thousand and three saddam was captured at dawn in his hideout in a farmyard a miserable rattle two meters underground. disheveled and distraught he surrendered to the america

but the city was 20 miles from the tigris river and 30 miles from the euphrates. how could a major inland port or any city, for that matter, survive in the desert so far from water ? stone begins a search for the source of water. for a perspective not possible from the ground, she orders a digital photograph of the area from the french spot satellite. with artificial color, she analyzes the image on the stony brook computers. stone: in this blow-up, you can see the perimeter of the site right here, the two harbors -- one here and one less clear over here, which were fed by two main canals, one here and one here. the whole picture is one of a great deal of water at the site. in this view, you see one large channel here, which must have fed the site, which is located here. tracing the channel upstream, we suddenly found that it had two sources -- one coming here and the other here. the presence of the two channels explains not only how mashkan shapir could have had boat trade with both the tigris and the euphrates systems, but also the large amount of water that was

a relaxing evening along the banks of the tigris overseen by the palace of the local hero sadam. saddam was always surrounded by members of his own tribe and many here miss the man who built a sunni state much to their advantage. they can injure or kill the americans didn't come here to look for weapons of mass destruction nor to hunt down certain are saying they came to rob us and to kill us asian iraq it was a unified country but at the moment when they arrived at the americans that triggered divisions by creating ethnic conflicts just you know this very well. they destroyed everything and then they left but they don't but in reality they're still here they make people think they've gone but they're still present their aim is to create discord in iraq with all my life and that is all that. as we leave tikrit we come to a village in the heart of saddam hussein's kingdom where he was finally caught. on to some. for fourteenth two thousand and three saddam was captured at dawn in his hideout in a farmyard a miserable rattle two meters underground. disheveled and distraught he surr

we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. to. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols are iraqi wearing uniforms applied by the u.s. the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal. here once through the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein. on april ninth two thousand and three it was. into the ground of the united states believed to have won the will. nine years have passed the square is empty and the city appears to be in a state of siege. that our passenger alyea theater director back from exile in paris waited for a long time to see his enemy fall and return to his native city. where i was thrown in prison and when i got out i was given five days to leave baghdad and iraq that gave me to. put folly the combat continues. and it through theatre that he hopes

we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrol. or iraqi wearing uniforms supplied by the us the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal.

. >> the little boy through the foul ball back onto the field in the game between the tigris and thend a's. his father is in disbelief. his brother gives him an earful for tossing the ball back. .ome people offer him a ball >> he was trying to do the right thing. the --? >> his brother was like --. well, teams did not do so but at least the weather was nice. >> i know. did you get outside? >> the weather was incredible for the nationals. great.y not so you have some wet weather. it's really light. it will last for the most part through the morning. temperatures are in the upper 50's. we are warmer than this time yesterday. it could always be worse. in 1923 on this date, 0.3 inches of snow at reagan national fell. glad we are not there. look at temperatures across the region. most of us in the same boat, in the '50s. 58 at reagan national. dulles airport. there we go. a little slow today. 54 in gaithersburg, 50 in frederick, 56 in martin springer is at this hour. live super doppler showing light patches of rain. we're seeing a little in prince george's county, fredericksburg, a little

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a relaxing evening along the banks of the tigris overseen by the palace of the local hero sadam. saddam was always surrounded by members of his own tribe and many here miss the man who built a sunni state much to their advantage. they can injure the americans didn't come here to look for weapons of mass destruction nor to hunt down certain are saying they came to rob us and to kill us ation iraq it was a unified country but at the moment when they arrived at the americans that triggered divisions by creating ethnic conflicts just you know this very well. they destroyed everything and then they left but i don't know if they'll be done reality they're still here they make people think they've gone but they're still present their aim is to create discord in iraq that all my life that is all. over. as we leave tikrit we come to a village in the heart of saddam hussein's kingdom where he was finally caught. on december fourteenth two thousand and three saddam was captured at dawn in his hideout in a farmyard a miserable rattle two meters underground. disheveled and distraught he surre

marines today stormed across the tigris in baghdad fighting every inch of the way against iraqi republicanry paid a surprise house call on saddam hussein's prooized palace deep inside baghdad, invading saddam's most personal space. even the bathroom, complete with gold plumbing. u.s. troops found no iraqi leaders and little intelligence here but u.s. officials say it sent a strong message to the iraqi leadership. >> this regime will come to an end. the outcome is clear. the saddam hussein regime a over. >> this day in 2003 when u.s. troops made strides to capture baghdad. two days later troops tore down that infamous statue signifying the fall of the capital city. it would take another eight months to capture the leader himself hiding in a spider hole covered in dirt. troops found him on the outskirts of his hometown. eight more years until the war ended. december 21, 2011, which the last american combat soldier left iraq. >>> next, have you heard about the "mad men" romney connection? stick around. we'll tell you all about it. do we have a mower? no. a trimmer? no. we got nothing. we just