Tarhog Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Fox is reporting 'sources' say its likely Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed in a US raid in Mosul.....of course doesn't mean much until they have the bodies. Now for Daddy.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 We got our dictator's sons extra crispy this time. According to my father, the resistance was sufficient at the house that the 101st called in air power, and used TOW and SABO rounds! For the unwashed, that would have heated up the target rooms in the house to around 2000 degrees or so for a few moments, which is a little rough on the skin. Do they have aloe in Iraq? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbooma Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 the army knew something there were 200 soldiers there If this turns out true then this is HUGE for the US and the Iraqi people, this might just squash the rest of the resistance now, those two were such big figureheads and I would say were more important than getting Saddam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skins24 Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Likely Killed http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/22/sprj.irq.sons/index.html Dead? http://www.msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0cv=CA01 Very Likely Killed http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,92591,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matt Kyriacou Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Come on now.......don't you know by now? This means NOTHING........... Bush knowingly lied to EVERYONE about the reasons for going to war. The left won't be satisfied unless his sons are found with a bit of Plutonium up each of the a$$e$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Brit intel is saying they are dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Originally posted by Matt Kyriacou Come on now.......don't you know by now? This means NOTHING........... Bush knowingly lied to EVERYONE about the reasons for going to war. The left won't be satisfied unless his sons are found with a bit of Plutonium up each of the a$$e$. I don't know if that was a more bitter or sad statement. Find one person here that thought those two shouldn't be gone. You're dragging other topics into this thread. Pathetic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Well............it is the same Brit intel that stands by the assertion that hussain was buying urainium. Maybe we best wait for the big three networks to confirm this, as well as the CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA and congress...............just to make damn sure it's true and accurate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I think the difference here is time. This Intel was current and they acted right away. Perhaps if they acted on the Intel about what Saddam was trying to buy and caught them red handed, it would be a different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Dead meat, according to buds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I read the same at the top of CNN.com. They are confirming it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Party Time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbooma Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Tarhog take out the question mark, it is official now The CNN website has the word TRUMPED and 2 aces next to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 You know...I always thought it was in bad taste to celebrate anyone's death. But I think that rule doesn't apply here. Evil SOB's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Didn't someone say in another thread that these guys were cooked at like 2000 degrees? how could they identify so quickly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Didn't happen. Our boys called in air support but didn't use it. Evidently high velocity projectiles took care of the a$$holes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbooma Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Originally posted by Bufford Didn't someone say in another thread that these guys were cooked at like 2000 degrees? how could they identify so quickly? "Without saying how, Sanchez said U.S. officials had confirmed that Odai and Qusai were among the four dead people. A U.S. official told NBC News separately on condition of anonymity that senior Iraqi figures in U.S. custody had positively identified the bodies. The two other casualties were a teen-age boy — possibly Qusai’s 14-year-old son, Mustapha, who is known to travel with him — and a man who could be a bodyguard, U.S. officials said." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 washingtonpost.com Hussein's Sons Killed in U.S. Raid By Walter Pincus and Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, July 22, 2003; 3:39 PM The two sons of fomer Iraqi president Saddam Hussein were killed today by U.S. troops in a firefight in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez announced this afternoon in a press briefing in Baghdad. Details of the attack were very sketchy in Washington. But an intelligence official said that tentative identification was made when the bodies were shown to several Iraqis who have been detained by U.S. forces and who told U.S. military officials that they were Hussein's sons. Both men were among their father's closest advisers and had been listed as aces in the deck of cards depicting former Iraqi officials being sought by U.S. troops. The dead did not include Saddam Hussein, U.S. officials said. Before the attack, U.S. troops from the Army's 101st Airborne Division had targeted the home in Mosul, which some wire reports said may have been owned by a Hussein relative. The target was chosen because of information from intelligence agencies who suspected high ranking members of Hussein's inner circle were there. The resistance was reportedly fierce when the U.S. troops arrived this morning. U.S. officers told the Reuters news agency that as many as 200 U.S. soldiers had attacked the villa with machine guns and rockets during a four-hour battle. "Individuals of very high interest to the coalition forces were hiding out in the building," Lt. Col. William Bishop of the 101st Airborne told Reuters in Mosul. "This morning we went to the building and surrounded it." Major Trey Cate, spokesman for the division, said four "high-value targets" were found dead after the battle. A fifth Iraqi also died in the fighting and at least five were hurt. Along with their father, Uday and Qusay are the top three on the U.S. list of most-wanted officials in Iraq. Both men were known as ruthless supporters of Saddam Hussein, and U.S. officials demanded that they leave the country with their father before U.S. troops launched the war to topple the Iraqi regime. U.S. officials wanted the brothers to face trial for crimes against humanity. Uday, the elder son, controlled radio and newspaper in Iraq and headed the militia, Saddam's Fedayeen. He also headed the country's Olympic Committee and was reported to have tortured athletes who did not compete as well as he hoped. He had a reputation for a violent temper and a flamboyant lifestyle. He was reported to have killed his father's food taster in an argument and was himself badly wounded by an assassin in 1996. Qusay had headed the special military and intelligence units, including the elite Republican Guard, for his father and was widely viewed as Saddam Hussein's obvious successor. Although he was also known for being ruthless in guarding his family's position of power, he was considered more stable than his older brother. The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq had offered $15 million for information leading to the arrest or contributing to the confirmation of the deaths of the former Iraqi president's two sons. Uday Hussein was the ace of hearts and Qusay Hussein the ace of clubs in the cards handed out by the U.S. military. Last month's capture of Hussein's closest aide, Hussein Abid Hamid Mahmud, in a house in Tikrit, the former leader's hometown, gave a new impetus to the hunt for Hussein and his two sons. Mahmud was one of the few people whom the former president is believed to have trusted completely. According to U.S. Defense Department officials, Mahmud told U.S. authorities that Hussein and his sons survived the war and that the sons had escaped with Mahmud to Syria, only to be forced to return to Iraq, The Washington Post's Bradley Graham reported last month. The officials said Mahmud also described a plan by Hussein and his sons, Uday and Qusay, to split up to increase their chances of survival as U.S. forces closed in on Baghdad in April. At the time, officials expressed uncertainty about whether Mahmud was telling the truth, and one official said Mahmud had not provided specific information on where Hussein might be found. On June 19, U.S. forces attacked a convoy in western Iraq along the Syrian border after intelligence indicated that figures associated with Iraq's former leadership, possibly including Hussein's sons, may have been present. The following week, Rumsfeld said he had "no reason to believe" Hussein's sons were killed in the raid. © 2003 The Washington Post Company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackC Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 It's really good we got these evil sob's. I guess this wipes out any lie that might have been told by Bush in say the last 20 years. Heck this might even clear Kobe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Originally posted by JackC It's really good we got these evil sob's. I guess this wipes out any lie that might have been told by Bush in say the last 20 years. Heck this might even clear Kobe! uncalled for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Best keep your day job Jack. Comedian ain't your callin'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy-the-Greek Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Cnn is showing pics of a mob of people rushing the building and pulling out there bodies. They better pay the informant the full 30 million. They are saying it was "up to 15 mill a piece for information leading to the arrest and capture or confirmed death. If they want Saddam and Osama they better pay the full amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy-the-Greek Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I wish we could post an avi file of the mob pulling there bodies out from the house. They were probably coordinating the attacks on our soldiers in the past few weeks. I predict Saddam will be killed in the next week. Who ever they got to talk to them must know Saddams whereabouts. This is a great morale boost to our troops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarhog Posted July 22, 2003 Author Share Posted July 22, 2003 Apparently, we've learned a bit from our Tora-Bora days....even better news to come in the days ahead. Bon Voyage you brutal ****s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Couldn't happen to two more deserving SOB's. Rot in hell boys! And yeah, ttg, if we're doing our job right we'll make a very public display of keeping our word on this reward business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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