By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Six years ago this month, a crowd of cheering Iraqis and a worldwide television audience watched U.S. Marines topple a prominent statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square in the weeks after the U.S.-led invasion. It didn't signal the end of the war as many back then hoped it would. But recent activity at the square has some Iraqis encouraged again. This month, blast walls are being removed, and roads closed years ago are being reopened near Firdos Square.

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