U.S.: Bodies Identified as Saddam's Sons

NPR | By Tom Gjelten

Published July 22, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

A senior Defense Department official tells NPR that Saddam Hussein's former security chief and bodyguard has positively identified two men killed in Iraq as Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay. The men were shot during a raid by U.S. forces in the town of Mosul. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

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