TV shows Saddam cheered on street: Iraqi television on Friday

TV shows Saddam cheered on street: Iraqi television on Friday
showed President Saddam Hussein being cheered on a street, in the
first footage of the Iraqi leader in public aired since the start
of the war March 20.

Saddam appeared in olive green military garb on the main
square of the al-Mansour residential neighborhood of Baghdad,
flanked by just a few bodyguards but packing a firearm in a
holster.

The footage, which showed a scene in daylight, was broadcast
at about 9:20 pm (1730 GMT).

Smiling broadly, the Iraqi strongman accepted several kisses
of his hand from the jubilant crowd, which chanted "With our
blood and our souls, we shall redeem you" and "Bush, Bush, listen
well, we all love Saddam Hussein." --AFP