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<p>Uday and Qusay Hussein, the ace of hearts and ace of clubs respectively, in the popular deck of most-wanted-in-Iraq cards, have met a fate similar to the thousands they were personally responsible for killing. The only downside is that they died more quickly than many of the victims of their atrocities. Hell has surely welcomed them with open, flaming arms. The family that kills together gets to burn together.</p>

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...

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...