<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>as i understand it, the bodies were burned beyond recognition.  if this is true, only DNA testing would confirm their identies.   current news reports are saying the victims were saddam's kids.  any ideas what the US done to confirm these destroyed bodies were saddam's kids?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #008000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dhenwood@panix.com href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">Doug Henwood</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:59 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] it took 200 Americans 4 hours to kill 4 Iraqis</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>U.S. Kills 'High-Value' Iraqis in Siege<BR>By Miral Fahmy<BR><BR>MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops stormed a house in the northern <BR>Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday and said they killed four high-ranking <BR>allies of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).<BR><BR>Some 200 soldiers blasted the villa with machineguns and rockets <BR>during a four-hour battle before storming in to find four bodies, <BR>U.S. officers said.<BR><BR>They declined to identify them or comment on local rumors Saddam's <BR>sons might have been present.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>