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US to Release Photos of Saddam's Sons

The United States soon will release photographs of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons to prove they are dead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday.

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The United States soon will release photographs of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons to prove they are dead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill after briefing members of Congress, Rumsfeld said he had not decided precisely when the photos would be released.

"I said, soon," Rumsfeld said.

U.S. officials had debated whether to release photos of Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay, who were killed in a shootout with American troops Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Meanwhile, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said American officials underestimated the strength of resistance in Iraq by Saddam's supporters and have done other "stupid things" there.

"It was difficult to imagine before the war that the criminal gang of sadists and gangsters who have run Iraq for 35 years would continue fighting, fighting what has been sometimes called a guerrilla war," said Wolfowitz, the second-ranking official at the Pentagon.

Source: Agencies

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