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Major Trey Cate of the 101st Airborne Division said five Iraqis had been killed including

Major Trey Cate, of the 101st Airborne Division, said five Iraqis had been killed, including four “high-value individuals”, and five injured Four US soldiers were injured. The American troops used helicopter gunships, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machine guns before storming the building. Local people told reporters that Uday and Qusay were rumoured to have been staying at the house, a villa owned by Mohamed el-Zidani, a tribal ally of the Hussein clan There was no suggestion that Saddam himself was present. President George Bush was briefed about the secret operation by the Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They resisted the detention and the efforts of the coalition forces to go in there and apprehend them, and they were killed in the ensuing gunfight and the attacks that we conducted on the residence.”Gunfire erupted across Baghdad last night, apparently in celebration as the news of the brothers’ deaths quickly spread.

Two other bodies ­ believed to be that of Qusay’s 14-year-old son and Uday’s bodyguard ­ were also recovered from the palatial villa.”We are certain that Uday and Qusay were killed today,” Lt General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of the US forces in Iraq, said at a news conference in Baghdad “They died in a fierce gun battle. The bodies of Uday, 39, and Qusay Hussein, 37, were recovered from a charred and smoking building in the city of Mosul after US forces launched an early-morning raid, acting on a tip-off received the night before. American forces secured a major breakthrough yesterday when they killed Saddam Hussein’s two fugitive sons during a fierce, four-hour gun battle in the north of the country.
Their deaths raised hopes in Washington that the capture of Saddam himself could follow. Uday’s reaction is not known, But nothing in their upbringing had fitted them for life on the run.. When these failed they had nothing to fall back on.As Baghdad fell Saddam Hussein decided to hide separately from his two sons telling them that it was safer to do so Qusay collapsed in tears at the news.

They had been brought up as security men with few other skills. Neither Saddam nor his two sons seem to have known how to react to the impending invasion. The plan was to prevent the army disintegrating as it had done in Kuwait in 1991.It did not work. Uday, bizarrely, struck back saying that he intended to convert from Sunni Islam the faith of his father and most of the Iraqi leadership – to become a Shia the sect to which half of all Iraqis belong.Qusay was in charge of the security forces before the war started this year – but Saddam would have taken all strategic decisions Uday was in charge of the Fedayeen Saddam militia. Saddam named him as caretaker president in the case of his own indisposition.

When his brother-in-law Hussein Kamel first defected to Jordan in 1995 and then unwisely returned to Baghdad the following year, it was Uday who led an attack on his house in which Hussein Kamel he was killed.Qusay began to get the upper hand in the fierce competition between the two brothers. Probably they were as frightened of their father as everybody else in Iraq.Uday in particular was always closer to his mother, Sajida, though officially the two sons were always referred to as Saddam’s “cubs”.The older son made a cult out of violence and cruelty. That they were better educated than him seems not to have given them any greater insight. He drank little, often disappearing from Uday’s parties saying that it was time for serious work.Over the past year this work often involved the slaughter of political prisoners before a general amnesty was announced last year.Uday and Qusay seemed to have inherited all their father’s faults.