HE was grubby, dishevelled and appeared compliant. Those who loved or hated Saddam Hussein could not believe that the man who for decades terrorised his people and neighbours could surrender to US troops without even firing a shot.

Saddam Hussein’s shadow has finally been lifted from the country he ruled with an iron grip for over 20 years.

A man who says he was Sadddam Hussein’s sorcerer predicts the Iraqi dictator will be found dead.

US TROOPS scoured a remote region north of Baghdad yesterday in a bid to track down guerrillas loyal to Saddam Hussein as one US soldier was killed and two wounded.

SIX US troops were wounded in attacks in Iraq while US soldiers shot dead five arms sellers and a child at an arms market in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit.

UDAY and Qusay? “The fools, the fools, the have left us our Fedayeen dead. As long as Iraq holds these graves she will never be at peace.”

ALL over Europe, especially in countries which opposed the Iraq war, you can hear gleeful tidings that America and Britain have been badly bitten after their Middle East adventure.

American forces in Iraq continue to close in on Saddam Hussein, conducted several top secret operations since killing his sons Uday and Qusay two weeks ago, the US military said today.

US soldiers raided homes and farmhouses in the hostile Sunni heartland around Baghdad yesterday, detaining dozens of suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists and saying the net was closing on the deposed dictator himself.

The sons of Saddam Hussein, Oday and Qusay, were buried in the family cemetery in their home town of Tikrit this morning, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society and the US military said.

The US military handed over the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons, Oday and Qusay, to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, which is taking the corpses for burial in their hometown of Tikrit, the US Army said today.

Saddam Hussein’s daughters have expressed deep affection for their father in interviews, but said they did not know where he was and that they last saw him a week before the Iraqi war started.

An adviser to the CIA has hinted that US and coalition staff were close to a breakthrough in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The US has approved the payment of the €28.6m reward to the Iraqi who revealed where Saddam Hussein’s two sons were hiding.

NOW that we’re being told Iraq is safer because Uday and Qusay have been killed and people struggle to come to terms with telling their children that the Americans say it’s good that they see the horrible pictures of their bodies, we have to ask who is going to make the rest of the world safe from George and Tony?

FALLEN Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein mourned the deaths of his sons in a new tape recording sent to an Arab TV station yesterday.

Fallen Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein mourned the deaths of his son sons in a new tape recording sent to a Arab TV station today.

AMERICAN soldiers were attacked in broad daylight in the centre of Baghdad yesterday when a grenade was dropped into their vehicle from a bridge.

American soldiers were attacked in broad daylight in the centre of Baghdad today with witnesses saying two were killed when a grenade was dropped into their vehicle from a bridge.

US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz yesterday defended the invasion of Iraq as an example of how the United States had to be prepared to act on “murky intelligence” in its war on terrorism.

US soldiers said they missed catching Saddam Hussein’s security chief — and possibly the former Iraqi president himself — by a mere 24 hours early yesterday.

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein should be brought to trial for his crimes, not killed like his sons Uday and Qusay, the man appointed as Britain’s new envoy to Iraq said today.

A grenade attack killed three US soldiers and wounded four as they guarded a children’s hospital northeast of Baghdad.

US occupation authorities took the apparent gamble of cleaning up the appearance of the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons in a bid to convince sceptical Iraqis that Uday and Qusay are really dead.

The US-led coalition in Iraq showed off the bullet-riddled corpses of Saddam Hussein’s two sons yesterday, anxious to banish any doubt that the notorious brothers had been killed by US forces.

US doctors cosmetically improved the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons today -their faces reconstructed to appear as lifelike as possible after still photos failed to convince many Iraqis they were really dead.

Americans say Qusay and Uday Hussein each shot more than 20 times during Mosul gun battle.

Reports of their deaths may be greatly exaggerated. Given the dodgy quality of the information that the Americans and the British have been indoctrinating the rest of the world with, there is still a good chance that Qusay and Uday — not to mention the 14 year-old boy — are alive and well.

GUNMEN describing themselves as Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen militia vowed to step up attacks on US forces and their Iraqi collaborators to avenge the killing of his sons Uday and Qusay, in a video aired on Al-Arabiya television yesterday.

THREE American soldiers were killed yesterday when their convoy was hit by gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in northern Iraq, a military spokeswoman said.

GRAPHIC photos of the battered bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons were released by the US yesterday in a bid to convince sceptical Iraqis that the feared brothers were dead.

THE photographs of the bruised and bloodied faces of Saddam Hussein’s sons were all some Arabs needed to be convinced that the two men were killed by the US army, and the reactions ranged from anger to satisfaction.

The photographs of the bruised and bloodied faces of Saddam Hussein’s sons were all some Arabs needed to be convinced the two were killed by the US army, and the reactions ranged from anger to satisfaction.

Photographs of Saddam’s dead sons were released in Baghdad today in a bid to convince sceptical Iraq’s they had not survived the Mosul gun battle.

Three American soldiers have been killed in northern Iraq, a US military spokeswoman said today.

The US will release photographs of the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons to prove they are dead, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.

US forces captured a senior Iraqi Republican Guard official yesterday, one day after killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay in a four-hour gun battle.

THE US may have to release graphic photos of the bullet-ridden corpses of Saddam Hussein’s sons to convince sceptical Iraqis that they are dead, Bush administration officials said last night.

A NEW audiotape purported to be of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein broadcast by an Arab satellite station yesterday, called on former soldiers to rise up against American occupation.

THE US may release graphic photos of the bullet-ridden corpses of Saddam Hussein’s sons to convince sceptical Iraqis that they are dead, Bush administration officials said last night.

The US may have to release graphic photos of the bullet-ridden corpses of Saddam Hussein’s sons to convince sceptical Iraqis that they are dead, Bush administration officials said tonight.

Saddam Hussein loyalists, their faces covered and cradling grenade launchers and automatic weapons, vowed to “raise hell” against the US and Britain for the killing of the fallen dictator’s sons.