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Report: Saddam Hussein's Sons Captured Or Killed

POSTED: 11:24 a.m. EDT July 22, 2003
UPDATED: 11:43 a.m. EDT July 22, 2003

U.S. officials say they're investigating whether two of Saddam Hussein's sons are among the dead in a raid on a suspected hideout of high-ranking former Iraqi officials in the northern town of Mosul.

The raid sparked a shootout between members of the 101st Airborne Division and gunmen holed up inside.

Four Iraqis were killed in the raid on the house -- which later burned down.

The identities of the dead are not certain, but officials say they're trying to determine whether Saddam's elder sons, Odai and Qusai, are among the dead.

High-ranking Iraqi officials have been killed in the raid at the center of anti-American resistance in Iraq, according to broadcast reports.

According to NBC reports, Uday and Qusay Hussein "very likely" were captured or killed.

A number of Iraqi suspects were killed, MSNBC reported, including Uday and Qusay Hussein.

MSNBC said White House officials has neither confirmed nor denied the reports.

According to MSNBC, Al Jazeera news agency reported that four bodies were taken from outside a "Hussein" home that had been fired on in Mozul, Iraq. Three of the four bodies reportedly may have been Uday and Qusay Hussein and a grandson of Saddam Hussein, the news agency reported.