Jubilant Iraqis have greeted arriving marines in the Shia stronghold of Saddam City, the BBC’s Andrew Gilligan in Baghdad reports.

United Nations offices have been ransacked and the Olympic Committee building – headquarters of Saddam Hussein’s elder son Uday – set on fire.
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The BBC’s Paul Wood says people would not be behaving in this way unless they were sure Saddam Hussein’s grip on the city had been broken.
(BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saddam regime crumbles in Baghdad)

There were similar scenes in East Pakistan, 1971