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U.S. soldiers watch as smoke billows from a building hit with a missile launched by the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division in Mosul, Iraq , July 22, 2003. Former aides to Saddam Hussein as well as medical and dental records confirmed the ousted dictator's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a gunbattle with American troops at the house, the U.S. commander in Iraq said on Wednesday. Picture taken July 22, 2003. REUTERS/Spc. Robert Woodward/U.S. Army

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This photo released by the US Defense Department (DOD), shows flames erupting from a building hit with a TOW missile launched by soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) on in Mosul, Iraq . The sons of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein , Qusay and Uday, who were in the building, were killed in the gun battle. "We have no doubt we have the bodies of Uday and Qusay," Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez told journalists in Baghdad, 23 July. (AFP/US Defence Department/Curtis G. Hargrave)

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Soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) fire a TOW missile at a building suspected of harboring Saddam Hussein 's sons Qusay and Uday in Mosul, Iraq , on July 22, 2003. Hussein's two sons and other aides were killed in a gun battle as they resisted efforts by coalition forces to apprehend and detain them Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle as they resisted efforts by coalition forces to apprehend and detain them. U.S. President George W. Bush said on Wednesday the killing of Hussein's two sons should reassure Iraqis that Saddam's rule will not return, and he called for greater international support for post-war Iraq. REUTERS/Curtis G. Hargrave/U.S. Army