NBC NEWS: UDAY & Qusay Hussein "Likely" Captured Or Killed

MSNBC Live | 07-22-03

[Brian S]

Now being reported on MSNBC

[marajade]

They are saying it was in that fight yesterday.... are you saying they knew they were there for any long period of time?

[Peach]

This would be GREAT news, although I'd rather seen them in handcuffs and give the Iraqi people a few minutes with each of them.

[Alberta's Child]

One report said they sent 200 troops blazing into the villa with machine guns and rockets.

That's about the kind of force that was sent to "rescue" Jessica Lynch, wasn't it?

[CFC__VRWC]

Fox says there are rumors but no confirmation. MSNBC and NBC are reporting rumors which they can then use (if false) to browbeat the military.

I concur with your take on it. PMSNBC and NBC can report these rumors, then back off on them and claim they were fed more bad intel from the White House. Then of couse they can imply that the WH leaked these rumors in a political attempt to restore some of the President's credibility.

That way, not only do they get to rip on the WH some more, they give the Rats another opening to take some further shots as well. Just another day in the tag-teaming of the President.

[AngryJawa]

If we have these A-holes, dead or alive, they need to be paraded throughout the Sunni Triangle - Geneva Conventions be damned. Maybe that'll cut down on the daily pot shots our guys have to endure.

[mware]

Arab TV is saying that the sons were in the house.

[VOA]

Good luck with the fence-sitters!

Thanks -- the ones I know are well-meaning...I think they just need the right nudges.

If not, they'll each get an anonymous XMAS card with this graphic!

[Dog]

MSNBC just had a video of the shooutout site...

[beachn4fun]

Some time between now and the presidential election, it's very likely that the US will be able to confirm the death or capture of both Saddam and OBL. This will totally dominate the news (particularly if it's a capture) and blow the Dems out of the water.

GOD willing. And wouldn't that be JUST wonderful??????

[N. Theknow]

NBC NEWS: UDAY & Qusay Hussein "Likely" Catpured Or Killed or Alive or In Hiding or In Disguise or Just About to Be Caught or Whooping It Up Somewhere Else...

Actually they are in hiding.....and have to pee really bad!

[Catspaw]

Fox News is reporting that it's "likely" they were killed. Fox's Greg Palkott (sp?) reporting live from Baghdad is reporting that eye witnesses are saying they were killed.

I want confirmation, though.

[coder2]

Dan Blather looks like he is going to cry --- this must mean that the news will be bad for the dems...

[Peach]

CNN getting video in - go check it out.

[Calpernia]

Sloth! THAT was funny!

ROFL!!!!!!!

[george wythe]

Now back to obsessing about Kobe.

I'm so glad the Kobe story displaced the Scott Peterson threads on FR. I recently clicked on a SP thread by mistake, and it was b-o-r-i-n-g. (The SP thread had Scott in the title, so I thought it was a Scott Ritter thread)

[beachn4fun]

You are funny!!

[Catspaw]

MSNBC just had a video of the shooutout site...

Scheiss. I have to keep the remote closer to the computer.

[LibertyGirl77]

Uhh . . .I think that's "Ann Compton."

[kcvl]

8:05 a.m., July 22, 2003

MOSUL, Iraq – U.S. troops stormed a house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday and said they killed four high-ranking allies of Saddam Hussein.

Some 200 soldiers blasted the villa with machine guns and rockets during a four-hour battle before storming the building and bringing out four bodies, U.S. officers said.

They declined to identify them or comment on local rumors Saddam's sons might have been present.

Saddam's two sons may have been found in the shoot-out, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

"There is a pretty decent chance" that Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were there during the shoot-out, one official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. forces have been conducting an intensive hunt for the fugitive former dictator himself, spurred on by guerrilla attacks on their ranks they blame on his die-hard supporters.

Another U.S. soldier was killed Tuesday, the sixth in five days. And the International Committee of the Red Cross said one of its staff was killed in a shooting south of Baghdad.

They were attacked as a trio of U.S. appointees attended a Security Council meeting in New York, the first Baghdad delegates to go to the United Nations since Saddam fell in April.

"Individuals of very high interest to the coalition forces were hiding out in the building," Lieutenant-Colonel William Bishop of the 101st Airborne Division told Reuters in Mosul.

"This morning we went to the building and surrounded it."

Major Trey Cate, spokesman for the division, said four "high-value targets" were found dead after the battle. A fifth Iraqi also died in the fighting and at least five were hurt.

Local residents said there had been rumors the troops were hunting Saddam's sons. The younger, Qusay, was one of his father's most trusted lieutenants. Uday was famed and feared throughout Iraq for his cruelty and playboy lifestyle.

Witnesses said U.S. soldiers were fired at by people inside the house as they approached.

[ambrose]

Ummm... how many times have Saddam, his sons, and Chemical Ali been killed so far?