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Sun 04 Apr 2003Destroyed US tank shown in BaghdadIraqis chanting "Long live Saddam Hussein" crowded around a destroyed US tank on a highway leading south out of Baghdad where Iraqi officers said four US soldiers were killed.Journalists were today taken by Iraqi officials to the site of what they said was a battle on Saturday about 15 miles from the city centre, on the highway to Mahmoudiya south of Baghdad.