Saddam sons ‘killed’ in raid

A FIREFIGHT erupted when US forces surrounded the home of a cousin of Saddam Hussein in the northern city of Mosul yesterday, apparently searching for the deposed dictator’s sons. The building later burned to the ground.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said yesterday that he could not confirm reports that Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay had been killed in the raid.

McClellan said he was “not in a position to confirm”, the reports that the two are among the four killed.