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The big media show of Iraqis pulling down the Saddam statue was a huge hoax. Wider camera angles show that the entire square was sealed off by American tanks, and that at most there were 150-200 people involved in the event. Most of them were American servicemen, and the Iraqis involved were Ahmad Chalabi and members of his Iraqi National Congress, a party banned under the rule of the Ba'ath party. These expats were flown back into Iraq by the US during the Baghdad campaign.
This is less of a theory and can more or less be proved, I'll post a link when I get home, I have it bookmarked there.
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