- Title: IRAQ: MORE REACTIONS FROM IRAQI CITIZENS ABOUT DEATH OF UDAY AND QUSAY HUSSEIN
- Date: 26th July 2003
- Summary: (W3) MOSUL, IRAQ (26 JULY, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS, INTERIOR PAN OF DESTROYED ROOM, RUBBLE AND DEBRIS ON THE GROUND, OVERTURNED FURNITURE 0.19 2. SLV U.S. SOLDIERS STANDING IN RUBBLE 0.22 3. VARIOUS, CHARRED AND BULLET-RIDDEN WALLS 0.37 4. WIDE OF COFFEE TABLES AMONGST RUBBLE 0.51 5. VARIOUS OF BLASTED AND BULLET-RIDDEN WALLS, LIGHT COMING IN THROUGH BULLET HOLES 1.15 6. VARIOUS OF FURNITURE STREWN ACROSS BEDROOM 1.39 7. VARIOUS OF SMOULDERING RUBBLE IN ANOTHER ROOM 1.54 (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 26, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 8. VARIOUS OF WOMAN SELLING NEWSPAPERS BY SIDE OF ROAD TO CARS (2 SHOTS) 2.06 9. WIDE OF IRAQIS LOOKING AT NEWSPAPERS LAID OUT ON THE GROUND 2.11 10. CLOSE OF STILLS OF DEAD UDAY AND QUSAY HUSSEIN ON NEWSPAPER 2.18 11. VARIOUS OF MEN READING PAPERS (2 SHOTS) 2.28 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LOCAL RESIDENT HAYDER KHALIF SAYING: "The people are relieved, no Uday, no Qusay, no Saddam nor Baath regime. Now the people are getting relieved." 2.45 13. SMV MAN SELLING JUICE IN STREET 2.50 14. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) IRAQI CITIZEN ALA HUSSEIN SAYING: "We don't want neither Uday nor Qusay, we want the head of the big snake (Saddam). The big snake (Saddam) is with the American and every one knows that." 2.58 15. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) IRAQI RESIDENT FUAD DAGER SAYING: "There is no doubt (concerning the pictures of bodies of Uday and Qusay). And if there is any doubt, it doesn't exceed ten per cent. They (Uday and Qusay's bodies pictures) are themselves." 3.10 16. SLV OF PEOPLE LOOKING AT NEWSPAPERS 3.16 17. WIDE OF TRAFFIC IN STREETS 3.23 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MOSUL AND BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
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- Story Text: The house in Mosul in which Saddam's sons were killed
was reduced to a pile of rubble in Tuesday's gunfight. Iraqi
dailies have published the grisly, blood-splattered
photographs of Uday and Qusay Hussein on their front pages.
U.S. troops are destroying the house where Saddam
Hussein's sons Usay and Qusay were killed. The once a
beautiful villa was reduced to rubble in Tuesday's (July 22)
gunbattle and has been guarded by U.S. soldiers since.
Uday, a feared rapist and torturer, and Qusay, who
commanded parts of Iraq's military and security apparatus,
were killed in the villa in Mosul's affluent al-Falah
neighbourhood on Tuesday (22 July). Witnesses say they may
have been hiding there for weeks.
Some neighbours suspect their host, businessman Nawaf
al-Zeidane, might have turned them in to get the $30 million
price the United States put on their heads.
Under the State Department's 'Rewards for Justice'
programem, Washington offered up to $15 million for
information leading to the death or capture of each of the
sons.
According to the 'Rewards for Justice' website, in the
past nine years the United States has paid more than $9.75
million to 24 people who provided information that put
"terrorists" behind bars or prevented acts of international
terrorism.
Iraqi dailies published the grisly, blood-splattered
photographs of Saddam's sons on their front pages on Saturday
(July 26). Yesterday (July 25), footage of Uday's and Qusay's
bodies had been flashed on Iraqi TV screens. In the footage
their faces had been retouched and beards shaven.
Trying to convince sceptical Iraqis that Uday and Qusay
are dead, U.S. officials showed Reuters and other journalists
two bodies on Friday (25 July) that Washington says are those
of Saddam's sons.
A U.S. official said the aim was to convince the Iraqi
conspiracy theorists that if the grisly pictures couldn't
convince them, perhaps the waxy corpses shown yesterday would.
"The people are relieved, no Uday, no Qusay, no Saddam nor
Baath regime. Now the people are getting relieved," local
resident Hayder Khalif said.
"There is no doubt (concerning the pictures of bodies of
Uday and Qusay). And if there is any doubt, it doesn't exceed
ten per cent. They (Uday and Qusay's bodies pictures) are
themselves," said Faud Dager, another local resident.
A burning issue is what will happen to the bodies. Muslim
tradition demands they be buried quickly, but few in Iraq will
want to see them become a shrine. It is possible they could be
discreetly handed to clan elders in Tikrit, Saddam's home
town.
Washington underlined its confidence that the notorious
brothers had been killed by saying it expected to pay the full
$30 million reward to the Iraqi informant whose tip-off
enabled the U.S. military to find two of the top three men on
its most-wanted Iraqis list. But some Iraqi's are unhappy that
Saddam himself hasn't yet been captured.
"We don't want neither Uday nor Qusay, we want the head of
the big snake (Saddam). The big snake (Saddam) is with the
American and every one knows that," said Baghdad resident Ala
Hussein.
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