Sadams' s sons dead..Been confirmed

stuckinthereeds · 07-22-2003, 01:49 PM

NBC special report has just confirmed that Uday and Cusay are dead

Stickemup · 07-22-2003, 01:52 PM

Hip Hip Hooray!!!!

I hope it was slow and painful.

hntngirl · 07-22-2003, 01:55 PM

Thank God! Right at this moment, those guys aren' t thinking they' re " all that" anymore! The temperatures in the desert weren' t nothin' ![>:][>:][>:]

c903 · 07-22-2003, 02:23 PM

Now, the troops need to bag dad!

Johnny · 07-22-2003, 02:24 PM

MOSUL, Iraq "” Saddam Hussein' s sons Odai and Qusai (search) were killed Tuesday when U.S. soldiers stormed a house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul (search), U.S. military officials said Tuesday.

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez of U.S. Central Command (search) announced late Tuesday night that Odai and Qusai were two of the four people who died in a firefight between U.S. troops and Iraqis at a house in Mosul earlier in the day.

Sources at the Pentagon and within the Bush administration earlier 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 U.S. was " 90 to 95 percent certain" that Saddam' s sons were among the dead.

Officials said four bodies were transported out of the house. Three were adults -- Odai, Qusai and a bodyguard. The fourth body was of a teenager -- possibly Qusai' s son.

Sanchez would not say how a positive identification of the bodies had been made. The U.S. government has DNA samples on Saddam' s sons, but testing was expected to take some time. U.S. officials said they wanted to talk to people who knew Odai and Qusai in order to identify the bodies and look for distinguishing marks.

One U.S. official told Fox News that " they were shot up" so much that it is difficult to make a positive identification of the bodies.

The house was burned to the ground after a loud, four-hour gunbattle between the people inside and soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (search).

Widespread and sporadic gunfire crackled across Baghdad after dark Tuesday as word spread that Saddam' s feared and hated sons may have been killed.

" It' s celebration. People have heard about what happened," a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters.

Officials told Fox News that they had two pieces of intelligence that directed them toward the house and that " there was some indication that Qusai and Odai were inside."

Residents of the city, 280 miles north of Baghdad, said the American soldiers were searching for Saddam' s sons, who have been reported in the area. A reporter from Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera said eyewitnesses told him that Saddam' s sons were in the house when it was raided.

stuckinthereeds · 07-22-2003, 02:27 PM

hahaha. good one

n4deer · 07-22-2003, 02:31 PM

little bit of progress goes a long way. Hopefully they were running a lot of the recent show and we will see some shakeup from this.

TxCowboy · 07-22-2003, 07:33 PM

Glad to hear it. I hope they get Pappa Saddam next. I guess this will shut the libbies up for about.....oh.......15 mins?

strut · 07-22-2003, 08:12 PM

The United States and Bush being successful is the last thing the libbies want to see, I just can' t wait until the WMD are found.

Carpicon · 07-22-2003, 10:18 PM

You' ll notice the lefties will hide for a day or two, but then they' ll come roaring back out with some other complaint.

My prediction is that you' ll hear either: " They didn' t even try to arrest/detain them, or " This will only steel the Iraqi' s resolve, you' ve made martyrs out of them."

Pathetic. The world is a better place with those two monsters gone.