If I’m reading this news report about the deaths of Saddam’s sons correctly, a six hour firefight pitting two hundred members of the 101^st^ Airborne Division in addition to a military task force against unspecified adversaries ended in four casualties. Two of those casualties were Qusay and Uday, the third was a teenage boy (possibly Qusay’s son), and the fourth apparently a bodyguard.
Somehow, I find it hard to believe that Qusay and Uday would have been in a villa with nothing but a teenage boy and a single bodyguard for company. Wouldn’t they have been far better protected than that? If it was just the four of them, how could three men and a boy hold off two hundred plus American soldiers for six hours? If it wasn’t just the four of them, what happened to their guards? How did just those four people die? And…and…and…
This story has too many holes in it for me to take it at face value.
I hear what you are saying. It seems too flawed. It took that long to kill four people, especially with 200 hundred well-trained US military men to do it. I also heard that they launched rockets at them, and that is how they were finally killed. But, I have also heard that they were only killed in the gunfight.
Who knows? Maybe it’s a lie to get everyone off Bush’s back.