Mosul’s Reckoning: The Day Good Triumphed Over Saddam Hussein’s Sons
By early afternoon, Uday and Qusay Hussein, the sons and chief enforcers of Saddam Hussein, were dead. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); The operation began with a tip from an Iraqi who knew where the brothers were hiding. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, joined by special forces, sealed off the neighborhood.
- ▪By early afternoon, Uday and Qusay Hussein, the sons and chief enforcers of Saddam Hussein, were dead.
- ▪Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); The operation began with a tip from an Iraqi who knew where the brothers were hiding.
- ▪Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, joined by special forces, sealed off the neighborhood.
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Mosul’s Reckoning: The Day Good Triumphed Over Saddam Hussein’s Sons David Manney | 7:35 PM on July 22, 2026 AP Photo, File On July 22, 2003, American soldiers surrounded a large house in Mosul and called for the men inside to surrender.The men answered with gunfire.Four U.S. troops were wounded before the raid became a four-hour battle. By early afternoon, Uday and Qusay Hussein, the sons and chief enforcers of Saddam Hussein, were dead. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); The operation began with a tip from an Iraqi who knew where the brothers were hiding. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, joined by special forces, sealed off the neighborhood.
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