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To: NickSE who wrote (107145)	7/22/2003 1:06:42 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sources at the Pentagon and within the Bush administration told Fox News that at least four "high-level" targets were killed inside the house, a large villa that belonged to one of Saddam's cousins, and that there was a "likelihood" that Saddam's sons were among the dead. The house was burned to the ground after a loud, four-hour gunbattle between the people inside and soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division. Residents of the city, 280 miles north of Baghdad, said the American soldiers were searching for Saddam's sons, who have been reported in the area. A reporter from Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera said eyewitnesses told him that Saddam's sons were in the house when it was raided. "Individuals of very high interest to the coalition forces were hiding out in the building," Lt. Col. William Bishop of the 101st Airborne Division told Reuters. "This morning we went to the building and surrounded it." According to the Reuters report, U.S. soldiers were fired at by people inside the house as they approached, and the Americans called in helicopters and an unmanned vehicle for assistance before storming it. Fox News' Steve Centanni, reporting from the scene of the firefight, said the two-story building was "a mess." U.S. forces apparently used all the weapons in their arsenal, and the building, its columns and balconies were pock-marked with bulletholes. Members of Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division, wouldn't who -- if anyone -- they brought out of the house, but all the troops "have smiles on their faces and they seemed to have carried out this mission successfully," Centanni reported. There were no U.S. fatalities. Witnesses in the neighborhood said there are tunnels below the house. U.S. forces towed away a gray SUV from the side of house..... foxnews.com