US intensified search for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Last week Saddam's two sons were killed during a military operation. Hussein was said to have escaped. Photo by AP
A raid in Baghdad by elite US troops searching for Saddam Hussein has reportedly left up to five Iraqi civilians dead. An angry crowd gathered outside a house in the upmarket Mansur suburb of the capital after the raid involving Task Force 20 troops. In a separate operation, US forces also raided farms in the Tikrit area early on Sunday in an unsuccessful bid to snatch the former Iraqi leader's security chief.