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...Uday and Qusay Hussein hated each other. When they were boys, Uday would torture his younger brother, going so far as to stab him in the thigh and break his ribs and to try to blind him with a burning cigarette stub. Over the course of four decades they would become, apart from their father Saddam, the most feared men in Iraq--responsible for untold numbers of maimings, jailings and murders and, in the case of Uday, rapes as well. The brothers never outgrew their mutual contempt. Qusay loathed Uday's drunken rampages and reprobate lifestyle; Uday railed to friends...
...than an hour. At 1 p.m., American Kiowa helicopters spit rockets into the mansion while ground troops launched 40-mm grenades and 10 antitank TOW missiles. A group of soldiers entered the house again; it was quiet this time, save for a few shots from the bedroom fired by Qusay's son Mustafa, 14, who was killed when the troops returned fire. In a small upstairs bathroom covered in blood and broken glass, the soldiers found the bodies of three others: Uday, Qusay and a bodyguard...
...Uday and Qusay Hussein were buried today under the scorching noon sun in a cemetery just outside of their father's ancestral village of Owja. U.S. soldiers escorted the bodies of the sons of Saddam Hussein, and that of Qusay's 14-year-old boy Mustafa, and handed them over to the care of the local sheik. The military insisted on burying the two sons without an audience. A checkpoint was set up on the road to the cemetery, according to locals, to keep relatives and the citizens of Tikrit and Owja away while the two men's bodies...
...Allah" as they carried Mustafa's silver colored coffin to the freshly dug hole in the ground. "They are heroes, the sons of President Saddam Hussein," says Mahmoud Jemma Hamid, 19, who helped carry Mustafa to his final resting place. "The blood for Mustafa, Uday and Qusay will not go to waste," added Usama Hamid who used to work in the office of the President and helped shovel dirt on stainless-steel box that held Saddam Hussein's grandson. "Saddam loves the blood of all Iraqis...
...response of Iraqi insurgents to the deaths of Uday and Qusay has been to escalate their attacks on U.S. forces. But the question of whether these are a Baathist swan song or part of an expanding guerrilla war will only be answered in the months ahead, particularly if Saddam is taken out of the equation in short order. U.S. analysts certainly believe that remnants of Saddam's regime are playing a central role in the resistance, but it's not clear whether they're dependent on the same central authority that held them together before the regime was toppled. There...