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...resistance would continue without Saddam's sons, guerrilla fighters in Iraq have killed five American troops in the past two days. The attacks were not unexpected; Baghdad's U.S. administrator, Paul Bremer, had warned that supporters of the old regime would seek revenge for the killing of Uday and Qusay Hussein by U.S. forces in Mosul on Tuesday. The death of two of the three men at the heart of Saddam's regime certainly delivered a telling blow against those fighting to resurrect it, but it remains far from clear that the death of Uday and Qusay Hussein - confirmed...
...Still, despite the blow of losing Qusay and Uday Hussein, nobody's expecting the still-intensifying resistance will suddenly abate. U.S. officials have said repeatedly they don't believe the attacks on coalition forces - averaging somewhere between 12 and 20 a day - are being directly orchestrated by Saddam and his family, but are instead carried out by cell structures organized on regional and local lines. Just last week, Centcom commander General John Abizaid warned that the resistance fighters were clearly digging in for a long fight, in which case they would have steeled themselves for the likelihood of sustaining significant...
Just when the U.S. desperately needed some good news out of Iraq, the special task force hunting for Saddam Hussein turned up, if not their top prize, the next best thing: The dictator's sons. Uday and Qusay, two of Iraq's most notorious tormentors (and, in Qusay's case, his political heir) were holed up in a house in the northern city of Mosul. Helped by the 101st Airborne, the task force stormed the house and, after a fierce firefight that lasted hours, the Pentagon reported that two of the four charred corpses found inside were identified as belonging...
...guard in the left shoulder. Once inside, the men spent hours discussing strategy. At one point, the maid overheard her boss ordering an aide to gather medicine for Uday and escort him to neighboring Syria. (U.S. officials said last week that Mahmud, under interrogation, claimed that he, Uday and Qusay made their way to Syria but were sent back to Iraq. His interrogators weren't sure the information was true.) At about 1:30 a.m. on April 6, Saddam, Qusay, Qusay's two sons and Mahmud drove off again...
...Baghdad is falling!" he cried out. "The army is deserting." U.S. forces seized the capital on April 9 as Saddam statues toppled everywhere. But the man, perhaps, remained standing. On April 24, before the maid was allowed to return to Baghdad, she overheard her boss say Saddam was with Qusay in the Adhamiyah district, incognito in Arab garb and driving an ordinary car. --By Michael Weisskopf/Baghdad