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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division fire a TOW missile at a building suspected of harboring Saddam Hussein's sons. [View JPEG Photo, 701 KB] Soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) fire a TOW missile at a building suspected of harboring Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday in Mosul, Iraq, on July 22, 2003. Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle as they resisted efforts by coalition forces to apprehend and detain them. DoD photo by Sgt. Curtis G. Hargrave, U.S. Army. (Released) 030722-A-3450H-043A TOW missile streaks toward a building suspected of harboring Saddam Hussein's sons...

The left-wing idiotarians have come up with three "reasons" why we were bad, oh so bad, I mean just terribly evil, I mean... well, it's just too much... bad to kill the Pig Latin brothers Uday and Qusay. Click on each topic if you want to see my blog responses to these: It Was IllegalShowing the Body Pictures was InsensitiveThey will be Martyrs

Yes, that's right. A number of Democratic politicians and liberal columnists are outraged at the killing of Saddam's two sociopathic sons, outstanding Iraqi citizens whose only sin was to engage in their favorite leisure-time hobbies...raping, torturing and murdering their fellow citizens at will. Odai and Qusai's outraged American defenders insist that U.S. forces didn't try hard enough to prevent the unnecessary "assassination" of Saddam's victimized kids. Instead of allowing Odai, Qusai and their associates to gun down the American soldiers at will (as was their duty, evidently, under international law) American soldiers responded with an overwhelming show of American firepower,...

Uday & Qusay Permanently Recalled. Mosul, Iraq. By PsyOp Yesterday, American soldiers assigned the 101st Airborne division entered the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul to conduct a special recall election of Uday and Qusay Hussein, heirs apparent of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Just one year ago Saddam was re-elected by an overwhelming 99% majority of the Iraqi people. In that same election, his sons Uday and Qusay were elected to the Iraqi Senate and put in charge of much of the government’s bureaucracy. Since then, Iraqi citizen had come to regret the decision, if in fact they made...

Morgue pictures of Qusay Hussein Morgue pictures of Uday

<p>FOR Christopher Hitchens, the dramatic deaths of Saddam Hussein's evil spawn will always be the one that got away. The Vanity Fair reporter was in Mosul, Iraq, being shown around by the 101st Airborne the day before the crack American unit cornered Qusay and Uday Hussein and killed them in a six-hour firefight. "I flew back to Washington, D.C., on Monday night," he tells PAGE SIX.</p>

Baghdad - Members of Iraq's Governing Council have been given access to see the bodies of Saddam Hussein's two dead sons, Uday and Qusay, a senior coalition official said on Thursday. "They've been invited and they're expected to be there right now," the senior official said, asking not to be named. "They've probably already seen the bodies," being held in a US base set up in the compound of Baghdad International Airport, he added. The US-led coalition is battling with scepticism among ordinary Iraqis over the fate of Uday and Qusay, killed in an intense firefight on Tuesday with...

<p>July 24, 2003 -- THE elimination of Saddam Hussein's evil sons Uday and Qusay was the biggest success in Iraq since the fall of Baghdad, but the Democratic 2004 presidential wannabes just didn't want to talk about the good news.</p>

Wednesday, July 23, 2003KUWAIT CITY – The killing of Saddam Hussein's two sons by U.S. forces in Mosul will go a long way toward undermining Iraq's Iraqi Baathist resisters because it will chip away at their will to fight, a senior U.S. military official in Iraq told United Press International. "This is a very beneficial hit," the official said today. "They cannot feel anything other than doom, since if we can take down these guys, we can take down anybody. "It's a just a matter of time and good police work before we kill or arrest them, too." Uday...

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - The United States will release photographs of Saddam Hussein's sons taken after they were killed by American missiles as they resisted arrest in an effort to convince Iraqis they are truly dead. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in Washington on Wednesday the pictures would be made public "soon" but did not say how explicitly they would show Uday's and Qusay's fatal injuries. U.S. troops killed them in a raid in the city of Mosul Tuesday. "There will be pictures released," Rumsfeld told reporters after meeting with lawmakers. Another U.S. official told Reuters that he had...

The euphoria among American forces over the death of Saddam's sons was tempered yesterday by the killing of two US soldiers in separate ambushes. Nevertheless, senior British and US officials predict that the death of Uday and Qusay will go a long way towards "cutting the head off the snake" in the daily war of attrition against Iraqi gunmen. In a further sign of the improvement in the allies' intelligence, US forces captured Barzan Abdel-Ghafur al-Tikriti, the commander of the Special Republican Guard, Saddam's praetorian guard, made up of ultra-loyalists from his Tikriti clan. He was number 11 in America's...

Hussein Sons Came To House to Hide MOSUL, Iraq, July 23 -- Nawaf Zaidan Nasiri answered the front door of his elegant mansion 24 days ago and greeted a nightmare.Standing there, he told his neighbors Tuesday, were sons of former president Saddam Hussein, Qusay and Uday, two of Iraq's three most-wanted fugitives, asking Zaidan to repay years of privilege and favors they had doled out to him."I answered the doorbell and there they were, right in front of my face," Zaidan told his neighbor, Mukhlis Thahir Jubori, as they sat in a U.S. military Humvee on Tuesday. Thahir recalled their...

Under siege ... US troops watch and wait after missile struck villa sheltering Uday and Qusay EVIL Uday and Qusay Hussein were blasted to Hell by US troops as they cowered in a grubby toilet, it was revealed last night. The bloodthirsty brothers were gunned down after a TOW missile slammed into the reinforced concrete villa where they had been tracked down in Mosul, Northern Iraq. When the shooting stopped, their charred, bullet-riddled bodies were found slumped in the filthy loo, the Pentagon said. The body of Uday’s bodyguard lay with them. It is believed Qusay’s 14-year-old son Mustafa was...

Rumsfeld: Images Of Odai, Qusai Coming Pictures Of Bodies Intended To Convince Skeptical Iraqi Public POSTED: 7:55 a.m. EDT July 23, 2003 UPDATED: 7:22 p.m. EDT July 23, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday that the United States soon will release photographs of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's oldest and highest-ranking sons Udai and Qusai to prove to skeptics that they are dead. Speaking to reporters, Rumsfeld said he has not decided when the photos would be released. "Soon," Rumsfeld said. U.S. officials debated whether to release photos of Odai and Qusai, who were killed in a...

The Howard Dean campaign was forced to cancel events this week in response to events in Iraq (news - web sites). Donations to the Odai and Qusai Hussein Memorial Fund can be submitted directly to the Dean campaign. Dean responded to the passing of these martyrs to American jingoism by angrily announcing that the ends don't justify the means. This is a war we're talking about. Why don't the ends justify the means? (Note to the Democrats: Just because you defended Bill Clinton (news - web sites) doesn't mean you have to defend every government official who is reliably reported...

He was a monster even by the standards of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a sadist with a taste for cruelty so extreme that even his father was forced to acknowledge that his first-born son would not be a worthy heir. And yet for all that Uday Saddam Hussein symbolised the brutality of the Iraqi regime, his powers were severely circumscribed. Although he retained the privileges of the much-indulged son of a dictator, he was shunted from the real centres of power in the military and security services by his quieter, younger brother Qusay. Although Uday nominally had a role in politics...

Rumsfeld: Photographs of Qusay and Uday Will Be ReleasedVOA News23 Jul 2003, 23:07 UTC U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the United States will release photographs of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday to prove they are dead. Mr. Rumsfeld gave no timeframe for the release, but said Wednesday the photographs would soon be made available. Earlier Wednesday, the top U.S. ground commander in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez said four former Iraqi officials had identified Qusay and Uday's bodies. The two were killed in a Tuesday U.S. military operation in the city of Mosul. General Sanchez also...

Task Force 20, the special forces team that has been hunting down Saddam Hussein and his supporters, played a key role in the raid that ended in the deaths of the former dictator's sons. Allied special forces are organised into Joint Special Operations Task Forces wherever they operate. JSOTF 20 includes members of Delta Force, the American equivalent of the SAS, Devgru, the US navy special forces team previously known as Seals, the SAS and the SBS. It is not yet clear whether British personnel were involved in the raid that killed Uday and Qusay Hussein. The SAS squadron in...

Uday Hussein Uday Hussein, Saddam Hussein's eldest son who has died aged 39, was probably the most hated and feared man in Iraq after the president himself.He was infamous not only for numerous violent assaults against his kinsmen and political opponents, but also as football's worst loser: he imprisoned and tortured three Iraqi football stars as punishment for their side's defeat in the 2000 Asian Cup.Dressed in tailored Italian suits and puffing on his trademark Havana cigar, Uday oversaw all sport and youth activities in the country as head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee - the only one in the...