Saddam Hussein's Tikrit Presidential Site.
Photographs Taken April, 2003 as US forces entered Tikrit.  Operation Iraqi Freedom I.

Palace Main Gate.  Standing over 100 feet tall, this is the only building readily visible from Tikrit.  Most of the buildings are hidden from public view behind 12 foot walls surrounding the compound.

Twin Saddam Statues at Main Gate.  Combat engineers from the 4th Infantry Division demolished these statues in the summer of 2003.  The metal was melted down and used to build the 4th ID memorial, now located at Fort Hood, TX.    A clip of the demoltion is seen on the Fox News commercial.

View from the clifftops, overlooking the lake and lower tier of the Presidential Site.  The Tigris River is visible in the far background.

Hilltop Palace located on the upper tier of the complex..

Main Ballroom located inside the Main Palace Building.  There are over 100 individual buildings inside the Presidential Site.  The main building is the largest, measuring over 1,000 feet in length.

Secondary Ballroom in the Main Building.

Middle Water Palace on the upper tier lake.

Staircase and main foyer located inside Middle Water Palace.

Only one structure inside the Presidential Site was attacked by the US aircraft.

South Water Palace located on the Presidential Site's upper tier lake.

View of the lake located in the lower tier.

Green Roof Palace, foreground.  The destroyed building in the background is located outside the Presidential Site in southern Tikrit.  It was used as the Iraqi Special Security Organization (SSO) Headquarters.