Iraqis in the audience broke out in cheers, leapt up from their seats and pumped their fists in the air many had waited decades for that moment. This is a great day in Iraq's history, Bremer said, adding: The tyrant is a prisoner. I was in the audience that day in Baghdad, covering the Iraq invasion's aftermath as a correspondent for a US newspaper.
With both the NFL and English Premier League back in action, fans are dredging up painful memories of players who have ruined their weekends time and again. This genre of meme has an unofficial name - "football terrorist" - and it's being made literal in the kind of darkly absurd memes only TikTok could deliver. These SportsTok edits splice together lowlight reels of those players with clips of former Iraqi president and dictator Saddam Hussein.