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...target was more important than the other two." Shortly after the missiles found their marks, a pair of U.S. F117 fighters dropped four 2,000-lb. bunker-busting bombs on an underground facility believed to be housing Saddam and at least one of his two ruthless sons Qusay and Uday...
...Saddam made no mention of his sons Qusay and Uday, who play leading roles in commanding Iraqi regular and paramilitary units, respectively, and who U.S. officials have suggested may also have been hit in the March 20 strike. He also did not talk about the battle with U.S. forces Sunday in the southern city of Nasiriyeh, nor of the U.S. soldiers killed and taken prisoner there. The omission seemed to be an indication that the speech may have been pre-recorded sometime on Sunday before the news from Nasiriyeh had become clear...
...warheads and fired from six battleships in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, slammed into three targeted buildings in Baghdad. In addition, two U.S. F-117 warplanes from an air base in Qatar dropped four 2,000-lb. bombs on the underground bunker believed to be housing Saddam, Qusay and Uday. The CIA received an intelligence report that one of Saddam's sons was either killed or seriously injured while a second intelligence report cited sources who saw Saddam carried out of the rubble on a stretcher...
...FAMILY BUSINESS. Saddam's two sons operate on a smaller scale but display their father's cunning and ruthlessness. Uday, 38, the headstrong elder child, long dominated most smuggling routes but was severely injured in a 1996 assassination attempt. That has propelled Qusay, 36, to the fore. He runs Iraq's pervasive security apparatus and has used that position to consolidate financial and political power...
...Iraqi officials, including Saddam's son Qusay, head a committee to monitor inspectors...