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<p>U.S. military forces attacked a villa in northern Iraq yesterday and killed Saddam Hussein's two sons, both former regime leaders, in a fierce gunbattle.</p> <p>"We're certain that Uday and Qusai were killed today," Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of coalition forces in Iraq, told reporters in Baghdad. "We've used multiple sources to identify the individuals."</p>

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a six-hour gunbattle with U.S. troops at a villa in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday after a tip-off from an Iraqi, the U.S. military said. "We're certain that Uday and Qusay were killed," Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told a hasty news conference in Baghdad after four charred bodies taken from the Mosul villa were flown to the capital. "They died in a fierce gunbattle," he said, adding they had barricaded themselves inside the house and fired small arms at...

The U.S. acted illegally when its soldiers attacked and killed Uday and Qusay Hussein, a leading Democratic congressman complained on Tuesday, before mocking the military maneuver that succeeded in eliminating the brutal duo. "We have a law on the books that the United States should not be assassinating anybody," Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "We tried to assassinate Castro and we paid dearly for it," the Rangel contended. "And when you personalize the war and you say you're killing someone's kids, then they, in turn, think they can kill somebody." When an incredulous Sean...

WITH one stunning strike, America’s special forces have wiped out two of Iraq’s most wanted monsters.Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay were truly the incarnation of evil. They murdered, raped and tortured without pity. They laughed and smoked fat cigars as their screaming victims were dropped into shredding machines or boiled in vats of acid. They held the nation of Iraq in trembling terror. No husband, no wife, no young girl or boy was safe from their disgusting clutches. And they were busy making ghastly weapons so they could turn their murderous attentions to us in the West. It was...

The United States military command in Iraq has announced that the two Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, have been killed. Their bodies were found in the wreckage of a house in the city of Mosul after a gun battle involving two-hundred American soldiers supported by helicopters. Several hours later, the sound of gunfire echoed across Baghdad in apparent jubilation at the news. The two sons are second and third on Washington's most-wanted list of prominent Iraqi figures; fifteen-million dollars in reward money had been offered for information leading to their capture. Is this the end of Saddam's dynasty? Tell...

Rangel is objecting to the deaths of the Hussein children on the grounds that their deaths violated are laws against assassinating foreign leaders. I can't believe it. Actually, I can. What I can't believe is he is saying this on tv.

Baghdad celebrates news of deaths FOREIGN STAFF GUNFIRE crackled across Baghdad late last night as word spread that Saddam Hussein’s feared and hated sons had been killed. "It’s celebration. People have heard about what happened," a US military spokesman said. Much of the gunfire was Kalashnikov rifles, with further reports of small explosions and machine-gun bursts. Tracer fire could be seen in the sky from several directions. On the streets, many Iraqis were delighted at reports Uday and Qusay were dead - although some wished they pair could have been brought to justice. Alaa Hamed, who was regularly beaten with...

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean wasn't exactly jumping for joy over the news that Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay had been killed by U.S. forces in Iraq. "It's a victory for the Iraqi people," he told reporters, "but it doesn't have any effect on whether we should or shouldn't have had a war." In comments covered by the Associated Press, the disgruntled Democrat added, "I think in general the ends do not justify the means." Despite the good news for America, Dean tried to stick to his sour-grapes message, complaining that his Democratic rivals shouldn't have supported the...

The twin brothers of terror were turned in by an Iraqi Used Car Salesman-lol!

Presidential hopefuls suggest internationalization, no new U.S. troops WASHINGTON, July 22 — While raising the pitch of their criticism of President Bush’s Iraq policy, Democratic presidential contenders are treading carefully. Increase the number of troops occupying Iraq, say Sen. John Kerry and Rep. Dick Gephardt, just make sure they are foreign troops, not American. Mindful of those rank-and-file Democrats who oppose the Iraq occupation, Kerry and Gephardt balance their support for the occupation with criticism of Bush for allegedly bungling it. THE NEWS Tuesday that U.S. troops had killed Saddam Hussein’s sons Odai and Qusai illustrated another risk in Democrats’...

<p>Life imitates "South Park," with a twist. In the exuberantly vulgar Comedy Central series, Saddam Hussein is killed by a pack of wild boars. In real life, American soldiers have killed Saddam's sons, and we can expect this to silence the pack of wild bores who've been snorting and oinking for the past few weeks about some twaddle involving Niger, a West African nation that will now return to well-deserved obscurity.</p>

Rarely has a modern tyranny been so tightly in the grip of a single family as was Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Saddam trusted few, even at the outset, and alienated, tortured or executed most of those few, including his two sons-in-law, who were butchered in front of their wives. By the end, the regime was essentially a triumvirate of Saddam and his equally venomous sons, Uday and Qusay. So dark was the shadow of terror they cast that “regime change”, as the Americans and British were aware from the start, would never seem truly believable to many Iraqis until these three...

BBC Tonight: "Iraq 'deaths' will have huge effect" By Mike Wooldridge, BBC world affairs correspondent Only the capture or killing of Saddam Hussein himself could be of greater significance. His elder son, Uday, and younger son, Qusay, played such legendary roles in Iraq's iron fist rule that their hold over people continued even while they were at large. There appears to have been a view among ultra-loyal Baathists that, while all three were alive, there was a possibility that things could be made unbearable for the coalition forces and the old regime could return. However distant that prospect, it was...

For months, America has deployed the full array of its formidable intelligence network to find Saddam Hussein and his sons. But yesterday's breakthrough came after a simple tip-off from the owner of the house where Saddam's sons were sheltering. At the start of the war, the US tried to "decapitate" the regime by bombing a building in Baghdad where Saddam was believed to be meeting senior lieutenants, but either missed him or the information was faulty. As the military occupation of Iraq has become more established, though, the allies' intelligence has steadily improved. One by one, US forces have rounded...

Like grisly Shakespearean characters, Saddam Hussein's two sons symbolised everything that was rotten about their oppressed country. The news that Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed inside the spacious house on the outskirts of Mosul in northern Iraq will please all but a handful of their compatriots. Uday, the psychopathic playboy, and Qusay, the cold, calculating and ruthless heir apparent, summed up the two sides of Saddam's Iraq. They were living proof of how their father's brand of tyranny combined wanton brutality with the cunning acumen that won more than three decades of dominance. Of the two, Uday held direct,...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed in a six-hour firefight Tuesday when U.S. forces, acting on a tip from an Iraqi informant, surrounded and then stormed a palatial villa in this northern Iraqi town, a senior American general said. Four coalition soldiers were wounded and two other Iraqis were killed in the raid, but Saddam was not among them. The house belonged to one of Saddam's cousins, a key tribal leader in the region. "We are certain that Odai and Qusai were killed today," said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez at a news conference in...

Saddam's sons killed in US raid MOSUL -- The two sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a massive US military raid in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the US military said. Qusay (left), touted as Saddam's intended successor, and elder brother Uday, 'barricaded themselves in the house' and 'resisted fiercely' before they were killed in the US raid. -- AFP They were killed in a raid on a building in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, US Army Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of US-led ground forces in Iraq, said at a news conference in Baghdad. He...

We need to put the bodies of Uday and Qusay ON DISPLAYAlso, it appears that Uday is having a bad day!

United States Department of Defense News TranscriptPresenter: Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Commander, Combined Joint Task Force Seven (CJTF-7) Tuesday, July 22, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lt. Gen. Sanchez Press Briefing on Uday and Qusay Hussein Sanchez: Good evening. How are you all doing this evening? Q: (Off mike.) Sanchez: I'm going to give a short statement. I'll answer a couple of questions. And then tomorrow morning, Eastern Time, I will come back and present a detailed briefing on the operation that was conducted today. Today our coalition forces associated with the 101st Airborne Division, Special Forces and Air Force assets conducted...

Saddam: Bodies too 'shot up' to ID 22/07/2003 21:25 - (SA) Mosul, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were "very likely" killed on Tuesday when US soldiers stormed a house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, US military and Bush administration sources told Fox News. Sources at the Pentagon and within the Bush administration told Fox News that at least four "high-level" targets were killed inside the house, a large villa that belonged to one of Saddam's cousins. A senior administration official said the US is "90% to 95% certain" that Saddam's sons were among the dead....