Washington: US warplanes struck a building in Baghdad where intelligence information
indicated that Iraqi leaders including Saddam Hussein and his sons might have been
staying, a US official has said.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, could not say whether the Iraqi
leaders were killed in April 7 attack.
"We just don't know who might have been killed," he said.
"Obviously we hope that some part of the leadership was taken out of action, but we
don't know at this point who might have been there at the time the ordnance arrived.
"There was some intelligence that came in this morning (April 8) suggesting a number
of Iraqi officials, intelligence officials and possibly Saddam and his two sons,
were gathered at some building in Baghdad, I don't have the location," the official
said.
"Central Command had aircraft in the air, who were given the co-ordinates. They
dropped some ordnance on the building and destroyed it," the official added.
He said the building was not a bunker.
Earlier, the US television news channel MSNBC reported that US officials believed
that Saddam and his two sons might have been killed in the attack.
Agencies
