Reply #54: do you really believe the story that an old man, a boy, and [View All]

[diamond14]

saddam's two sons (one in a wheelchair) held off 200 troops from the 101st Airborne, who hit the house with missiles, rockets, bombs for six hours ??? this whole thing just stinks...it makes no sense...

sounds more like an assassination than a street fight...OUR soldiers were sent in to kill 4 people, no prisoners were taken, no other bodies....just 4 people...you can't even call that a brawl, or a fight: 4 against 200....I call it an assassination...

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Bodies of teen, older man also found

A senior Pentagon official said one of the other two bodies at the battle site appeared to be that of a teenage boy. U.S. officials noted that Qusay has a teenage son. The other body recovered appeared to be that of a bodyguard.

An Iraqi witness told the Arabic-language news network Al-Jazeera, "The Americans came to this house and started shooting. They were saying that Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay, and his grandson, Mustapha, were there, and that one of his bodyguards was there, too."

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/22/sprj.irq.sons/index.html

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The two other casualties were a teenage boy — possibly Qusai’s 14-year-old son, Mustapha, who was known to travel with him — and a man who could be a bodyguard, U.S. officials said. Sanchez said he could not confirm those reports.

The White House said in a statement that it was “pleased” that the brothers were dead.

U.S. officials told NBC News that the owner of the villa in the al-Falah neighborhood of Mosul was a cousin of Saddam’s who is an important tribal leader in the area.


http://www.msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0cv=CA01