BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Jubilant residents of Baghdad attacked the symbols of Saddam Hussein's 24-year-long iron rule Wednesday as his regime crumbled.

Iraqis danced and waved the country's pre-1991 flag in central Baghdad's Firdos Square after U.S. Marines helped to topple a larger-than-life statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Iraqis had begun tearing down portraits of Saddam and throwing shoes and in scenes reminiscent of the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, they took a sledgehammer to its marble plinth after a column of Marines advanced into the square Wednesday afternoon.

Several hundred Iraqi men waved and shouted to the U.S. soldiers in the square, opposite the Palestine Hotel where two journalists died Tuesday when a U.S. tank fired on the building. (Media deaths)

"It's like Iraqi tanks pulling up on Fifth Avenue in New York or Picadilly Circus in London," Reuters correspondent Khaled Yacoub Oweis said from within the hotel.

A small group of men climbed......

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