Loyalists vow to avenge deaths

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.

“The occupation forces said the killing of Uday and Qusay will reduce attacks ... We tell them it will increase attacks,” said one of a group of hooded gunmen who pledged to continue “the jihad (holy war) against infidels”.

Uday and Qusay were killed in a US raid on a villa in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, and US authorities are planning to release photographs of their bodies to overcome widespread Iraqi suspicions over their fate.