(FILES) This file photo taken on May 13, 2003 shows Iraqi children in front of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's luxury yacht the al-Mansur moored in Basra after it was bombed during the US-led invasion of Iraq that ended Saddam's decades of iron-fisted rule.  - Measuring 120 metres in length and weighing over 7,000 tonnes, the former presidential yacht had been assembled in Finland and delivered to Iraq in 1983, according to the website of Danish designer Knud E.  Hansen.  (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES  /  AFP)

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