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U.S. forces killed Saddam’s sons
Saddam Hussein's sons Qusai and Odai were killed in a massive
firefight in Mosul on Tuesday when U.S. forces surrounded and
then stormed a palatial villa. The sons were Nos. 2 and 3 on the
U.S. list of 55 most-wanted Iraq officials.
By Sarmad Jalal
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSUL, Iraq — Saddam
Hussein’s sons Odai and Qusai died
in a blaze of gunfire and rockets
Tuesday when U.S. forces, acting on
a tip from an Iraqi informant, stormed
a palatial villa in northern Iraq. The
U.S. military claimed their deaths
will blunt Iraqi resistance to the
American occupation.
The six-hour raid was the most
successful American operation since
the war and comes as a much-needed
tonic for U.S. troops, who recently
have suffered a dozen attacks a day
by Saddam loyalists and other anti-
American groups.
News of the sons’ deaths touched
off celebratory gunfire in Baghdad
and at least one southern city. But L.
Paul Bremer, Iraq’s top civilian
administrator, cautioned “there will
be some people who will be pretty
unhappy that we killed these two
guys.”
Four coalition soldiers were
wounded and two other Iraqis were
killed in the raid, but Saddam was not
among them. The house belonged to
Nawaf al-Zaydan Muhhamad, a
Saddam cousin and tribal leader in
the region.
“We are certain that Odai and
Qusai were killed today,” Lt. Gen.
Ricardo Sanchez told reporters in
Baghdad. “The bodies were in such a
condition where you could identify
them.”
The identifying marks included
Odai’s scars from a 1996 assassina
tion attempt, a senior defense official
said, speaking on condition of
anonymity.
The daily attacks on U.S. occupa
tion troops are thought to be the work
of former military officers and Baath
Party leaders loyal to Saddam and his
family — especially the sons, who
played primary roles in the military
and feared security services.
“Outstanding,” said 1st Lt. Greg
Wilson, 33, with the Florida Army
National Guard in Baghdad. He
clapped his hands and said: “One step
closer to getting home.”
Both Odai (pronounced oh-
DEYE) and Qusai (pronounced koh-
SEYE) ranked second only to their
father in the deposed regime. They
were Nos. 2 and 3 on the U.S. list of
55 top former Iraqi officials wanted
by Washington. The United States
had offered a $25 million reward for
information leading to Saddam’s cap
ture and $15 million each for his
sons.
The White House applauded the
action.
“Over the period of many years,
these two individuals were responsi
ble for countless atrocities committed
against the Iraqi people and they can
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Qusai Saddam Hussein
Saddam's second
oldest son, 37;
headed the
country’s
intelligence and
security services,
his father's personal
security force and
the elite Republican
Guard ^
Qusai
► Nicknamed “The Snake" for his
bloodthirsty but low-profile manner
► Used mass executions and torture
to crush the Shiite Muslim uprising
after the 1991 War
► Helped engineer the destruction
of the southern marshes in the
1990s
► Chief of the army branch for the
ruling Baath party in 2000
► Oversaw notorious detention
centers and is believed to have
initiated “prison cleansing” - arbitrary
killing to relieve overcrowding
► Married the daughter of a senior
military commander; separated; two
daughters
Odai Saddam Hussein
Saddam's eldest
son, 39; controlled
propaganda in Iraq
and allegedly
oversaw the torture
of athletes who
failed to perform
► Head of the
paramilitary Fedayeen Odai
Saddam, and helped
eliminate opponents
► Iraqi exiles say he murdered at
will and tortured with zeal
► Routinely ordered his guards to
snatch young women off the street
so he could rape them
► London-based human-rights
group claim he ordered prisoners
to be dropped Into acid baths as
punishment
► Headed the Iraqi Olympic
Committee which was accused of
torturing and jailing athletes
► Ran Iraq’s most popular
newspaper and Youth TV channel
SOURCE: Associated Press
Aggie study hall
SHARON AESCHBACH • THE BATTALION
Senior construction science major Sarah Henricksen studies for her afternoon. Students often study in the shaded outdoor hallways of the
finance class at the Jack K. Williams Administration building Tuesday Administration building.
Proposed $9 per credit hour
tuition increase
Regents to weigh
tuition increase
By Jodi Rogers BOARD-of-REGENTS
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M Board
of Regents will vote on
whether to increase tuition
by $9 per credit hour
Thursday and Friday at
Texas A&M University-
Commerce.
The board will also
receive input from Student
Body President Matt Josefy
and a representative for
A&M President Robert M.
Gates on the tuition hikes.
The proposed tuition
increase would take effect
January 2004. Gates said
tuition would again
increase in the fall of 2004
because the University
wants to invest more in its
faculty.
Bob Wright, A&M
System spokesman, said
Gates’ representative will
ask the board for approval
of the tuition increases.
“All they’re going to do
is basically present it to the
Board, just like they pre
sented it to the students.
Then (the board will) ask
questions, and then they’ll
vote on it,” he said.
Authorization for A&M
President Robert M. Gates
to sign an agreement to
transfer the Athletic
Ticket Office
operations
to the 12th Man
Foundation
RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION
SOURCE: TEXAS A&M SYSTEM
Wright said he is unsure
of how the board will vote.
“You never know with
the board. I couldn’t tell
you one way or the other,”
he said.
Joey Perot, a senior
speech communication
major, said he looks at the
tuition increase like an
investment.
“To get a quality educa
tion from a university like
A&M, when afterward you
know how much that
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Dairy Center still slated for closure
By C.E. Walters
THE BATTALION
The Dairy Science Center, which Texas A&M offi
cials announced would close in February, is still semi
functional, said J.W. McNeill, associate head of exten
sion for the animal science department.
Although cow milking has ceased, the heifer devel
opment program is still active, McNeill said.
McNeill said there was nothing else he could have
done to change the administrators minds.
“(The decision to close) was largely economic driv
en,” he said.
McNeill said the program employed two full-time
employees and 15 part-time student workers.
In a memo, McNeill said all laid-off employees who
asked for jobs would receive them. So far, two or three
former employees have requested work and have been
found new jobs, he said.
Cody Martindale, a former employee of the depart
ment and a junior agricultural development major,
helped organize a petition to keep the department open.
Martindale said the petition was signed by more than
6,000 people, including students, former students and
dairy industry employees.
The petition was presented to administration officials
including A&M President Robert M. Gates.
“(Gates) appreciated support for the program and
said he trusts the administration below him to make the
decision,” Martindale said.
Waco police continue hunt
for missing player’s body
Lynch returns home to West Virginia
By Allison Barker
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ELIZABETH, W.Va. — A deli
cate-looking Jessica Lynch returned
home in a wheelchair Tuesday to a
flag-waving, red-white-and-blue cel
ebration that was pure small-town
America, modestly saying in her first
public appearance since her rescue:
“It’s great to be home.”
“I’d like to say thank you to every
one who helped and prayed for my
return,” the 20-year-old former POW
said in a girlish voice.
Lynch received a standing ovation
as she entered a media tent in a
wheelchair and made a brief state
ment with a large American flag as a
backdrop. She wore a beret and a
crisp Army dress uniform adorned
with medals awarded Monday,
including the Bronze Star and the
Purple Heart.
The Army supply clerk appeared
LYNCH
nervous at first but
seemed to gain confi
dence as she went on,
proudly saying she
had read “thousands
of stories” recounting
that when she was
rescued, she told U.S.
commandos that she
was an American soldier.
“Those stories were right. Those
were my words. I’m an American sol
dier, too,” she declared.
Afterward, she was moved to a red
convertible for a motorcade through
Elizabeth and the five-mile trip to her
home in Palestine, a community of
about 300. About 2,000 people lined
the route.
Lynch said that for a long time,
she did not realize that her ordeal
had captured the hearts of millions
around the globe. “I read thou
sands of letters, many of them
from children, who offered mes
sages of hope and faith,” she said.
Lynch’s 507th Maintenance
Company convoy, based at Fort
Bliss, Texas, near El Paso, was
ambushed March 23 near the Iraqi
city of Nasiriyah in an attack that
killed 11 soldiers. U.S. forces res
cued Lynch at a Nasiriyah hospital
April 1, while five other captured
507th soldiers, held apart from
Lynch, were rescued April 13.
Lynch’s rescue made an American
hero out of the petite blonde who
joined the Army to get an education
and become a kindergarten teacher.
Suffering from broken bones
and other injuries, the private first
class arrived at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in the nation’s cap
ital on April 12 and spent more
than three months there before she
was released Tuesday morning.
She arrived in Elizabeth aboard a
Black Hawk helicopter, her left
foot still in a cast.
DENNEHY
By Angela K. Brown
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WACO, Texas — Law enforcement offi
cials searched a gravel pit near the Brazos
River Tuesday for the body of missing Baylor
basketball player Patrick Dennehy.
Waco police Sgt. Ryan Holt said no
body had been found by Tuesday after
noon. Asked if he thought a
discovery would be made
soon, he said, “For the fam
ily of Mr. Dennehy, we cer
tainly hope so.”
Former teammate and
roommate Carlton Dotson,
21, was charged Monday
night with murder after he
confessed to FBI agents that
he shot Dennehy in the head “because Patrick
had tried to shoot him,” an arrest warrant
released Tuesday said.
“Mr. Dotson provided specific informa
tion about the murder of Mr. Dennehy that
would lead us to believe he committed the
murder,” Holt said, declining to release
more details.
Holt said it’s early in the investigation, and
he wouldn’t rule out any motive.
Dennehy, 21, was last seen on campus on
June 12; his family reported him missing on
June 19. The next day, Waco police said
Delaware police told them a police informant
said Dotson told someone he shot Dennehy in
the head after the two argued.
Dotson was seen “during the late evening”
on June 12 in Sulphur Springs, Texas, the
hometown of his estranged wife, driving
Dennehy’s Chevrolet Tahoe, and told some
one he planned to go to Maryland, the warrant
said.
Dennehy’s Tahoe was found abandoned,
without license plates, in a Virginia Beach,
Va., mall parking lot on June 25.
About a month later, Waco investigators
teamed that Dotson contacted authorities in
Maryland and requested to speak with FBI
agents about Dennehy’s disappearance. He
“made this telephone call voluntarily of his
own free will,” the warrant said.
“Investigators learned from FBI agents in
Maryland that Carlton Dotson confessed to
shooting Patrick Dennehy,” the warrant said.
Dotson attorney Grady Irvin said Tuesday
afternoon the he had not spoken to Dotson
since his arrest.
“I don’t think he’s in a mental state right
now to be speaking to anyone in any lucid
fashion,” Irvin said.
Irvin said he would examine the arrest
warrant and see if any comments that Dotson
made in recent weeks were included.
“If it is, there is a significant likelihood
that his competency to make those statements
are in question,” he said.
The search for Dennehy’s body began
Monday night after Dotson spent about two
hours with authorities in Maryland, where
Dotson lives in the small coastal town of
Hurlock.
Waco investigators, some on horseback,
searched Tuesday the river banks and a grav
el pit surrounded by pastures, tall grass and
sunflowers just miles from the Baptist-affili
ated university where Dotson and Dennehy
both were on the basketball team last season.
Baylor basketball coach Dave Bliss gave a
brief statement Tuesday, saying the team and
university were “shaken by the events that
have occurred.”
“We keep hoping this isn’t true. It seems
unreal, especially that a 21-year-old who
always wore that big smile and couldn’t wait
for the season to begin might be gone,” Bliss
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