Bodies of Saddam's Sons Handed Over to Iraqi Red Crescent

World | August 2, 2003, Saturday // 00:00

The U.S. military handed over the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons, Odai and Qusai, to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society. The brothers were killed by American forces in a gun battle July 22 in Mosul, the northernmost Iraqi big city. The bodies have been held in refrigeration at the U.S. base at Baghdad International Airport where they were prepared for burial according to western - not Muslim - custom by military morticians. The Red Crescent will take the corpses for burial in their hometown of Tikrit.

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