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<p>Baghdad -- In the final days before Baghdad fell, Saddam Hussein's son Qusai issued a series of military orders that sent thousands of elite Republican Guard troops to their certain death in the open countryside.</p> <p>According to accounts provided to The Chronicle by more than a dozen Iraqi military officials -- some of them still hiding from American forces -- the orders exposed the core of the Iraqi military to devastating U.S. air attacks and left the capital's defenses markedly weakened.</p>

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.

<p>MOSUL, Iraq — All day, glaziers from Sheik Nawaf al-Zaydan Muhhmad's contracting firm had been working on the windows of their employer's ornate, three-story villa on the boulevard of Al Falaha in Mosul.</p> <p>Mukhlis Jubori, Mr. al-Zaydan's next-door neighbor and closest friend, was curious. The windows did not need replacing and glass has been scarce since the war. Where was Mr. al-Zaydan, he wondered? He had not seen him for almost three weeks.</p>

U.S. soldiers found a stash of cash and a briefcase of goodies in the mansion where Odai and Qusai Hussein were killed last week. The brothers had $100 million in U.S. dollars and Iraqi dinars, according to a report published Sunday. Based on the contents of a briefcase belonging to Odai, Saddam Hussein's elder son seemed to be preparing more for a night out than a fight. It contained pain-killers, cologne, Viagra, unopened packages of men's underwear, dress shirts, a silk tie and a condom, Newsweek reported. They also had two women's purses. Sunday, U.S. forces focused their hunt for...

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...

MIDI - CAMP GRENADA Bye bye, Qusai…bye bye Udai…we have finally…kicked your boot-tay Let's hope others…learn the lesson…with the great US of A do not be messin' When Slick Willy…was in power…you would never…have to cower Those good old days…you ran wild…little girls worried that they'd be defiled You were both sick…heartless bastards…for your nation…a disaster Had Gore stolen…the election…there would not have been the need to seek protection Bush had warned you…. to be leaving…your poor daddy…has been grieving No more sports cars…no more raping…from the morgue it's really hard to be escaping Is it hot where you're...

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...

<p>Sanchez: Good evening. How you all doing this evening? I'm going to give a short statement. I'll answer a couple of questions. And then tomorrow morning Eastern time I will come back and present a detailed briefing on the operation that was conducted today.</p>

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",...

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...

EXCERPT - Washington -- U.S. intelligence officials are confident that a cruise missile attack at dawn Thursday killed several members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle, perhaps including one of his sons, but that Hussein himself is still alive, according to intelligence sources. They said that they believe Hussein's son Qusai, who was recently placed in charge of the defense of the Baghdad and Tikrit region, as well as one of Hussein's most trusted lieutenants, Izzat Ibrahim, may have been among those killed when cruise missiles hit a residential compound in the opening salvo of the war. Officials told The Associated...