In 2003, the United States vigorously opened the prelude to the war in Iraq, and a fierce war began.
On the eve of the war, many people believed that Iraq's military strength was strong, and the smoke of war with the United States was bound to be a time-consuming tug-of-war.
However, under the strong artillery fire of the US military, the Iraqi army was quickly crumbling and fleeing, and the result of such a vulnerable attack was really shocking.
Because of the scattered Iraqis, shortly after the invasion of the US army, many Iraqi troops not only took the initiative to hand over their weapons and choose to surrender, but also took the initiative to help the US military find the hiding place of Saddam Hussein and his family's children.
Those who betrayed Saddam Eventually became the messengers of hell who destroyed Saddam's family.
Saddam Hussein's two sons were killed by the U.S. military, and the local people of Lesser Iraq witnessed the whole process.
I wonder what the scene of their duel with the US military at that time was like?
After the outbreak of the war, saddam's family tree fell and scattered
In less than a month, U.S. troops captured Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.
After Saddam Hussein fell, seeing that the general trend had gone, the entire family members of Saddam Hussein also began a long and endless escape.
Everyone knows very well that the US military will not easily spare those relatives who are related to Saddam Hussein.
Saddam's daughter Lagarde managed to escape the Pursuit of the American Army under the protection of the King of Jordan.
Saddam's two sons, Uday and Kusai, had to flee the country.
The brothers, Uday and Qusai, were Notorious "violent maniacs" in Iraq in their early years, and under the patronage of their father Saddam Hussein's power, the brothers were arrogant, bloodthirsty, and domineering.
Although these two men were once arrogant, under the threat of the American army, Uday and Qusai were very depressed in their final escape days.
On the one hand, they were busy reorganizing their forces against the US army, and on the other hand, they had to hide in Tibet to escape the enemy's pursuit.
Although Iraq has long been covered with the vast net of THE US military, the whereabouts of the two brothers, Uday and Qusai, have been delayed.
Just days before the fall of the Iraqi capital, Uday set out to get his most trusted bodyguard, Sabah, to travel to Jordan to buy a vehicle to prepare for escape, but Saba'en was gone.
Betrayed by his most trusted bodyguards, Uday finally realizes the hidden crisis around him.
Uday feels that he is in an embattled situation, and fearing that the bodyguards will betray him, Udai will eventually kill the 17 bodyguards around him.
This also directly ruined another possibility of the brothers' survival.
When the brothers fled for their lives, they did not forget to use a modified garbage truck full of a large amount of gold and silver jewelry.
Later, with the help of an Iraqi informant, the U.S. military was able to find traces of the brothers.
Tempted by the heavy financial interests of the US military, the informant finally revealed the hiding place of Saddam's two sons.
Uday and Qusai were hiding in a luxury villa in the Mosul region of Iraq.
Because of saddam's brutal character, the family almost got a tragic end.
Until the last stage of Uday and Qusai's lives, only one bodyguard stayed with them.
The scene of the duel between the brothers Uday and Qusai and the U.S. army
After the United States learned the relevant accurate information through informants, in order to be foolproof in the operation, it also specially formulated a series of rigorous and detailed deployments, intending to eliminate the Uday and Qusai brothers in one fell swoop.
The encirclement and suppression of Saddam's two sons began in the morning.
According to reports: At about 9 a.m. local time on July 22, nearly 100 heavily armed U.S. troops who received intelligence arrived outside a luxury villa in the al-Falah neighborhood in the northern part of Mosul city and asked the residents to open the door for inspection, but they were refused.
Subsequently, the U.S. troops pretended to retreat. About an hour later (around 10 a.m.), 25 armored vehicles carrying more than 100 other American soldiers arrived. Immediately afterward, 2 teams of American troops surrounded the villa and opened fire inward, and some people in the villa returned fire with light weapons. After 6 hours of intense fighting, 4 American soldiers were wounded.
At that time, the first person to rush to the scene was a reporter from Fox News in the United States, who described the scene at that time and said:
"The hiding place where Uday and Qusai are located is a luxurious two-storey villa with tiled exteriors and tall colonnades in front of the door.
By about 10:30 a.m., the fighting between the two sides began to become very fierce, and the walls inside and outside the villa were covered with bullet holes, rubble everywhere, and the magnificent villa building was instantly reduced to rubble.
The interior of the building was filled with soaring flames, and the whole house was burning. ”
The U.S. military officially confirmed that Uday and Cussay had been killed
At about one o'clock in the afternoon, the U.S. military found the bodies of the Uday and Kusai brothers in a filthy toilet inside the villa, and not far away lay the only bodyguard beside the two brothers.
When the U.S. military found the bodies of these three people, they were already scorched beyond recognition, and their whole bodies were filled with large and small bullet holes, and in the bedroom next to the toilet was Mustafa, the son of Kusse, who had just been killed.
According to reports, the American soldiers who finally entered the villa took photos and archives of various corners of the villa and the bodies in the villa after the bombing.
Iraqi troops who heard the news searched the interior of the villa with U.S. troops, and in the smoke of the fire, a total of four bodies were eventually dragged out.
It was discovered that in order to avoid being pursued, the brothers Uday and Kusai also disguised their appearance.
In order to disguise themselves, both brothers grew thick beards on their faces, and Uday even shaved his hair to become a veritable "bald man".
Judging from the facial features of the corpse, the U.S. military can clearly identify the identities of Uday and Qusai.
But out of caution, the four bodies were sent to Baghdad for examination.
Long before the outbreak of the Iraq War, the U.S. military had managed to obtain DNA data from key members of Saddam's family, including the Uday and Qusai brothers, the main purpose of which was to accurately confirm the true state of life and death of these people in the future.
In order to verify the true identity of the two bodies, the U.S. military also found the gunshot wound on his left leg that he suffered during the assassination in 1996 on the body of Uday, which was closely compared with the X-ray of the leg injury taken after his assassination that year.
Even Saddam's personal secretary, Tikritti, was summoned to identify the bodies of Uday and Kusai.
In order to confirm that the two bodies were not stand-ins for Uday and Qusai, U.S. military experts also removed samples from the corpses for DNA authentication.
After a series of rigorous evidence collection, the US military truly believed that Uday and Qusai were really dead this time.
Shortly thereafter, Sanchez, commander of the U.S. military in Iraq, held a press conference in Baghdad to officially announce that Saddam's two sons, Uday and Qusai, had been killed by the U.S. military, and that the tragic remains of the two brothers at the time of their deaths were also announced to the public.
The US military did this in order to "kill chickens and scare monkeys" in order to deter anti-US forces.
On television, the public saw the bodies of two men lying naked in a body bag, face up, eyes closed, and the blood-stained and sore photo showed the Uday and Kusai brothers.
Judging from their remains, the faces of the brothers have been "disfigured" to varying degrees.
Couser's mouth was slightly open, teeth were exposed, and he looked a little dead.
His situation is relatively better than that of Uday.
Uday's eyes and face were puffy and purple from the bruises, and there was a dark brown wound running through from his left eye to the lower right corner of his mouth, and the bare brain door was covered with scars that looked like they had been scratched by fragments of missiles in a fierce battle.
The most conspicuous of these is a bullet hole spurting blood outward on the upper right of Udai's forehead, which is also the fatal point of Udai's death.
After the news that Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed by the US military was confirmed, the Iraqi people who had been deceived by Saddam Hussein's "fraudulent death" still did not dare to believe it, and US President Bush expressed "great happiness" with this news.
Many politicians have mentioned that the deaths of Qusai and Uday will be a "major victory" for the US military in Iraq, which is also a heavy blow to Saddam Hussein's regime and its supporters, and for Iraq and the United States, the deaths of Kusai and Uday are "absolutely good news".
In addition to Saddam's two sons, Kusai and Uday, who were killed by the U.S. military, his favorite youngest grandson, 14-year-old Mustafa, was also buried here.
The famous Saddam family has come to an end, and the only luck is that Saddam Hussein and several daughters are still fleeing overseas, which is the last trace of the family's bloodline.
Uday and Kussay died in the aftermath
When Saddam Hussein's descendants were killed by the Americans, he was still in a desperate escape.
After learning of the killing of his children and grandchildren Uday and Qusay, Saddam Hussein delivered a memorial speech through a tape recorder.
He declared to the outside world, "The deaths of Uday and Qusai will arouse the fighting spirit of the Iraqi people." In the face of the enemy, the Iraqi people will run out of bullets, shed the last drop of blood, and vow to live and die with the country. ”
Saddam Hussein also said his children and grandchildren were heroes who defended the dignity of the country.
But he did not know that the iraqi people already hated his family to the bone, how could they "coexist and die" with him?
The day after the deaths of Uday and Qusay, the U.S. military transported the bodies to the U.S. military base at baghdad airfield, where U.S. military funeral personnel performed cosmetic surgery on the bodies, after which the bodies were handed over to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society for relevant placement.
Shortly after, the Iraqi Red Crescent announced that the bodies of Uday and Qusay, as well as Kusai's 14-year-old son Mustafa, were buried in a cemetery in the village of Awuja, Saddam's birthplace.
Some members of Saddam's family claimed the body and subsequently buried it in accordance with Islamic customs.
The funeral was held in secret in his hometown, with only about 100 members in attendance.
And who was the informant who betrayed the Uday and Kusai brothers in the first place has aroused widespread concern among the Iraqi people.
Afterwards, according to a US news media report, it was Nawaf Zaidan, the owner of the villa where the Uday and Kusai brothers were hiding, who provided relevant clues to the US military.
He was a merchant and tribal leader in Mosul, and some say he was a cousin of Saddam Hussein.
In fact, the whole country of Iraq has long been full of rumors about Uday and Qusai hiding in Mosul, Zaidan premonitioned that this "open secret" would sooner or later bring death to himself and his family, and also coveted the temptation of the huge prize money of the United States, and in order to get rid of this "time bomb", the owner of the villa revealed the whereabouts of Uday and Qusai to the US military.
Later, the U.S. military said at a news conference that they would fulfill their promise to pay huge bounties to informants who provided clues to Qusai and Uday, and the "value" of Cussay and Uday was as high as $15 million each.