World waits to hear if Iraqi leader is dead

THE world is holding its breath to hear whether Saddam Hussein and his two sons are dead or alive following an allied “decapitation” strike.

The Iraqi leader and his sons, Qusay and Uday, were believed to have been meeting in a bunker under the al-Saa restaurant in the al-Mansour area of Baghdad when the building was reduced to rubble by four 2,000lb "bunker-busting" bombs.

US President George W Bush, yesterday meeting Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Northern Ireland, said: "I don't know if he survived, the only thing I know is he is losing power."