Corpses of Saddam’s sons on display to convince doubters

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.

The faces of Uday and Qusay, two of the most feared and loathed members of the ousted regime, were waxy after undergoing cosmetic facial reconstruction in an effort to make them resemble their former selves.

A US military official at the morgue in a US military base at Baghdad airport, where the bodies are being held, said the practice of applying putty to the faces was normal and that there was no intention to deceive.