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Mon 04 Apr 2003US forces claim to have seized Saddam's palaceUS troops took control of President Saddam Hussein's main presidential palace in Baghdad and entered a second this morning, the US military said."We have seized the main presidential palace in downtown Baghdad...There are two palaces down there and we are in both of them," Lieutenant Colonel Pete Bayer said.