Friday marked the first anniversary of the fall of Baghdad and the day US troops pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square in Bagdad. But there was no celebration at the former site of Saddam’s statue. On Friday the Los Angeles Times reports the square was sealed off by US troops with armored vehicles. Soldiers removed large posters of the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who the US has labeled an outlaw. In the square, the US troops were broadcasting a message in Arabic warning that anyone who approached the square would be shot.