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To: Red Heeler who wrote (433979)	7/26/2003 12:05:41 PM
From: Red Heeler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"We are trying to prevent crowd control problems. Many of the Iraqi people have declared Uday and Qusay martyrs and this site a shrine." ----------------------------------------------------------- US engineers start demolishing last stand shrine to Uday, Qusay's US army engineers and Iraqi workers have started demolishing the mansion where Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a massive US military assault four days earlier. "Demolition began today and it will take approximately 10 days," US Lieutenant Colonel Mike Rorex, from an engineer corps assigned to the 101st Airborne Division that led the raid said. "We are trying to prevent crowd control problems. Many of the Iraqi people have declared Uday and Qusay martyrs and this site a shrine." Troops and workers were using a pneumatic drill to break up the roof of the building, pulverised by anti-tank weapons and small arms fire from ground vehicles and attack helicopters in a four-hour pummelling on Tuesday. Brown and Root was declared primary contractor on the project and reported that the engineer unit had the demolition well under control. Uday, Qusay, his teenage son and a bodyguard were believed killed in the assault in the northern city of Mosul where the brothers were in hiding. Demolition work was complicated by the mansion sharing a party wall with a neighbouring house, Lieutenant Colonel Rorex said. Around two dozen US soldiers were guarding the building, with razor wire closing off a 100-metre stretch at the front of the building. The mansion's owner, Nawaf al-Zaidan, is widely suspected of being the informer who tipped off US forces that the Hussein brothers were in the house. He is expected to pick up a $US30 million reward for his efforts. Brown and Root expects to receive $US10 million for the demolition work. Lieutenant Colonel Rorex said workers at the site, both US Troops and Iraqi workers, will receive bonus MRE rations and warm beer as a thank you gift from Brown and Root. © 2003 Styx River Gazette CC