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Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s two elder sons and a grandson were buried as martyrs Saturday in rocky soil near the deposed leader's hometown, where insurgents afterward attacked U.S. troops with three remote controlled bombs. Despite the violence in Tikrit — a center of anti-American guerrilla resistance — the U.S. administrator for Iraq (news - web sites) declared he had not seen hatred of American troops among the country's people. Instead, L. Paul Bremer, chief of the American occupation administration, blamed incessant attacks against U.S. forces on foreign terrorists and three groups aligned with the ousted Saddam regime. He...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The sons of Saddam Hussein, Odai and Qusai, were buried in the family cemetery in their hometown of Tikrit Saturday morning, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society and the U.S. military said. Also Saturday, the military said a U.S. soldier was killed and three were wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on their convoy east of Baghdad on Friday. The soldier was the 52nd to die in combat in Iraq since President Bush declared major fighting over on May 1. So far, 167 soldiers have died in the Iraq War, 20 more than during the 1991 Gulf...

Iraqi Group Given Bodies of Saddam's Sons 5 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military handed over the bodies of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons Odai and Qusai to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, which will bring the corpses to their hometown of Tikrit, the U.S. Army said on Saturday. "The Red Crescent will take them to Tikrit and from there somebody will hopefully claim the bodies," said Cpl. Todd Pruden.

There is no doubt that the deaths of his two sons will be a devastating blow to Saddam Hussein, but those who hope that their loss will leave him a broken man are likely to be disappointed. He'll probably release another audiotape in the next few days saying that he has sacrificed his two sons for the struggle and calling on other Iraqis to be prepared to do the same, one veteran of the Iraqi opposition observed. What was already a life-and-death struggle for Saddam is now also a blood feud. Even so, his grief must be extreme. Saddam has...

WASHINGTON - The United States released pictures of the bodies of Odai and Qusai Hussein because the Iraqi people "deserved confirmation" that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons were dead, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. Related Links (Viewer discretion advised) The body of Odai Hussein (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030724/168/4s2om.html The body of Qusai Hussein (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030724/168/4s32j.html&e=8&ncid=1479 He said "there are people speculating" that one or both brothers committed suicide rather than be captured by American forces Tuesday. The bodies will have to be examined to determine whether either man took his own life, Rumsfeld said. The defense secretary said...

Startled neighbors and U.S. soldiers detail standoff, firefight with fugitives Odai, Qusai MOSUL, Iraq -- Neighbors didn't know what it meant at the time. But the beginning of the end for Saddam Hussein's notorious sons Odai and Qusai might have been when the men's host sent his wife and daughters away from his villa in his dark blue BMW. That was about 7 a.m. Tuesday, neighbors said. Two hours later, U.S. forces arrived and issued spurned calls for surrender through a bullhorn. Shots rang out and a firefight escalated into a rocket attack. Hours later, four bodies were carried from...

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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...

Sadaam's son's are dead!

The two wire of Saddam would have been killed in the US operation with Mossoul The two wire of Saddam Hussein would have been killed in an American raid Tuesday against a house with Mossoul (northern), indicated members of the family of the owner of this house and a person in charge local. The owner for the house, Nawaf Mohamed Al-Zaidane, "would have informed the American forces that the wire of Saddam Hussein, Oudaï and Qousaï, as well as a bodyguard named Abdel Samad, had taken refuge in its house and that he wanted to get rid of them",...

Son of Saddam Odai Hussein Brutal to Iraqis, Behind Torture of U.S. Prisoners By Brian Ross Feb. 14 — It was a father's dilemma: What to do with a wayward son? In Saddam Hussein's case, the problem was his son Odai, who has been accused of murders and rapes too numerous to count. For Saddam, the answer was to put Odai in charge of Iraq's Olympic committee. In the 16 years since, Odai Hussein has more than lived up to his reputation for capricious cruelty. One example: 20/20 uncovered evidence linking Odai with the torture and interrogation of some...

Posted on Fri, Mar. 28, 2003 THE BRUTES OF BAGHDAD IF SADDAM RAISED HIS TWO SONS TO BE AS VICIOUS HE IS, THEY'RE DOING HIM PROUD By BARBARA LAKER lakerb@phillynews.com ONE IS a sadistic playboy who rapes 12-year-old girls and tortures friends for amusement. The other is a methodical, ruthless enforcer who kills for political power, then has his victims buried in mass graves. They are Saddam Hussein's infamous sons - two evil brothers with blood on their hands. The Brutes of Baghdad. As bombs and missiles chisel away at their father's regime, it's unknown if Odai and Qusai Hussein...

Saddam's Son Odai Rejects U.S. Ultimatum BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's elder son on Tuesday rejected the U.S. ultimatum for the Iraqi leader and his family to leave the country, saying instead that President Bush should resign. In a statement distributed by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Odai Hussein said Bush was "unstable" and that the U.S. leader "should give up power in America with his family." Odai also warned that a U.S.-led attack will force Iraq (news - web sites) to broaden the war against the United States. Any attack on Iraq, he said, would leave "the wives and mothers...

It was a father's dilemma: What to do with a wayward son? In Saddam Hussein's case, the problem was his son Odai, who has been accused of murders and rapes too numerous to count.