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Wolfowitz Relays Impressions of Soldiers, Civilians in Iraq Sgt. 1st Class Doug SampleAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, July 23, 2003 -- The killing of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay by U.S. forces July 22 was another indicator that the United States is making progress in Iraq, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Pentagon reporters today. He noted U.S. officials are still considering whether to release photos of the two men's bodies to prove to Iraqi citizens that they had indeed been killed. Many Iraqis are still suspicious of the United States and fear Saddam's regime will return to...

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Iraq's former Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said Wednesday the deaths of Saddam's two sons would not end anti-U.S. attacks, insisting they were not directly behind them. "The two men were hidden and were not in a position to resist or lead a resistance. Their situation was limited, they were imprisoned," Sahaf, nicknamed "Comical Ali" during the U.S.-led war, told Abu Dhabi television. Sahaf said attacks on U.S. forces that took place after the killing of Uday and Qusay Tuesday proved that the brothers had no active role in attacks against U.S.-led occupying forces. U.S. officials...

The U.S. military turned up two aces in Mosul, Iraq yesterday -- Uday and Qusay Hussein, respectively the aces of hearts and clubs in the "most-wanted" card decks issued to U.S. troops. Both men were close advisors to their father Saddam, and -- as described elsewhere in today's Post -- took leading roles in torturing and terrorizing his enemies. Yesterday's operation not only rids the Middle East of two hateful thugs, it will deflate those loyal Baath Party fanatics who believe they can restore Saddam's Sunni clique to power through a guerrilla insurgency. As a bonus, the success will also...

One Of Saddam's Tribesman Tipped As Sons' Betrrayer MOSUL, Iraq (AP)--Some of Sheik Nawaf al-Zaydan Muhhamad's neighbors accuse him of tipping off coalition forces that Saddam Hussein's feared sons Odai and Qusai were staying with him and his family. If that's true, and U.S. officials won't say, the sheik will suddenly be $30 million richer. He's already become an outcast in his own neighborhood. The U.S. administration had offered $15 million each for information leading to the arrest of Saddam's wanted sons and $25 million for Saddam. In retrospect, neighbors said, they became suspicious of the sheik when his wife...

Odai, Qusai Deaths Go Against U.S. Ban By GEORGE GEDDA, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - In theory, pursuing with intent to kill violates a long-standing policy banning political assassination. It was the misfortune of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons, Odai and Qusai, that the Bush administration has not bothered to enforce the prohibition. The brothers were killed during a six-hour raid Tuesday at a palatial villa in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul by U.S. forces acting on a tip from an informant. They ranked just below their father in the deposed regime. Odai, in particular, had...

KRLA 870 in Glendale, CA is giving away Disneyland tickets this week. The callers get 15 seconds to be creative and speak about a current issue. I almost won yesterday with a limerick, but today was the lucky day. The prize was four passes for four trips to Disneyland or California Adventure (which sucks big time). The murdering Uday and Quasay Liked torture and women and booze-ay But they ran out of luck When they didn't hear "duck!" They're taking their forever snooze-ay

<p>An Iraqi citizen tips off the military about the location and planning begins. The first phase of the operation is "setting the conditions for us to conduct the assault," Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of ground forces, later says.</p> <p>10 a.m. Forces commence a "cordon-and-knock" operation, in which an interpreter, using a bullhorn, orders the occupants to come out. Forces receive no response.</p>

The empire strikes back AMERICAN forces in Iraq yesterday struck what appeared to be a blow of major proportions, their first since their almost bloodless capture of Baghdad. This one was a long way from bloodless. It consisted of an attack on the house of Saddam Hussein's cousin in Mosul, a gun battle lasting three and a half hours, and the near-certainty that Saddam's sons Usay and Qusay were killed. But the Wild West features were insignificant by comparison with the implications for the future of the US occupation regime in Iraq and the fightback against the guerrilla campaign waged...

World oil prices fell sharply after the US said its forces had killed the two sons of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein. The announcement that Uday and Qusay Hussein - two of the old regime's most feared leaders - were dead raised the prospect of faster progress in the effort to get Iraqi oil flowing again The price of crude oil in New York slid $1.59 to $30.19 a barrel on Tuesday night, having hit five-week highs earlier in the week. London prices dropped $1.20 to $27.49 on Tuesday and remained stuck in the doldrums on Wednesday morning "The news...

several callers to Neal Boortz said they heard the Husseins' death murder on air after reporting on Pres. Bush's speech.

No tears shed for Saddam's sons in the Gulf July 23 2003 at 03:57PM By Samia Nakhoul Dubai - No tears are being shed for Saddam Hussein's two slain sons but many analysts in the Gulf warned the United States on Wednesday against complacency after the surprise breakthrough. Politicians, analysts and ordinary people across the region said Washington still had a long list of political woes to address in Iraq to restore stability before claiming victory. "Americans should not consider this as a big victory. They should not bask in their glory. They should look at it as another step...

This isLONDON23/07/03 - News and city sectionWild celebrations in BaghdadBy Colin Freeman in Baghdad, Evening StandardBaghdad's curfew was broken by the crackle of gunfire as word spread last night that Saddam's hated sons had been killed. "It's a celebration, people have heard about what happened," a US military spokesman said. On the streets, many Iraqis were prepared to speak out for the first time about Uday and Qusay. But while some celebrated their deaths, others wished they had been captured alive. Alaa Hamed, regularly beaten with clubs while he worked as a producer for Uday's television station, said: "I don't...

President Bush is scheduled to speak on the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein from the Rose Garden shortly.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is planning to release photographs of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's two dead sons to prove to the Iraqi people that they were killed by American troops, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. The official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters the photographs of Uday and Qusay were unlikely to be released on Wednesday, but "there are plans to do so." "They are pretty bad," said the official of facial photographs that he had seen of the two sons, who the U.S. military said were killed in an intense firefight in Mosul...

The U.S. is weighing whether to publish and distribute photographs of the bullet-riddled corpses of Uday and Qusay Hussein in a bid to convince Arab news outlets and the Iraqi people that Saddam's two killer sons are indeed dead. "That's going to be a major concern for us," said Paul Bremer, U.S. administrator in Iraq, according to Fox News Channel's Bret Baier. "It has not been determined whether pictures will come forward, but it is on the table." Baier, who revealed Bremer's comments Wednesday morning to WABC Radio's Curtis & Kuby, said the Hussein brothers were identified through dental...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The United States will provide proof to the Iraqi people that Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed in a fiery battle at a Mosul mansion, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Wednesday. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told a news conference that dental records, X-rays and four former senior figures from the Saddam regime helped establish certainty that the two sons were killed in the four-hour gunbattle. The American commander sought to address skepticism among some Iraqis that the widely feared Odai and Qusai - second only to their father in power in the...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Uday Hussein is said to have been so sadistic that when he wasn't raping women, he fed enemies to his dogs. His younger brother, Qusay Hussein, was considered more stable, but just as murderous, as head of Iraq's repressive security apparatus and the country's second-most powerful figure.</p>

Through out the next few days, we have a chance to catalog some of the outragous remarks from the left, on the deaths of two of the most evil dictators to be in power in the 20th century. Let's compile a list of these remarks - Fox News - 7/22/03 - Charlie Rangle - paraphrased - "So we got a couple of thugs....what is the big deal....I think the real story here is that it is a violation of law to target world leaders for assination." He was the same Congressman to state that all we are doing is killing...

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This was one of those mornings that makes one eager to tune to The Today Show, anticipating the pleasure of watching Katie Couric forced to smile through clenched teeth as she reported good news for the US and the Bush administration. But Katie was not about to go down easy. In her lead comment on developments in Iraq, Couric chose to emphasize the negative. Thus she opened by intoning that: "Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were killed, but the violence goes on, with two US soliders killed." A minute later she added, apropos of nothing in particular, that "more than...