Bagram (Afghanistan): Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his sons—Uday and Qusay—
must be either dead or they are on their run, said Gen Tommy Franks who is on a
flying visit to US forces in Afghanistan.
Franks, head of the US Central Command, was talking to the press after meeting US
troops at Bagram Air Base.
"They're either dead or they're running like hell," Franks told reporters. "That is
the case with the leadership of the regime inside Iraq."
Franks also dismissed allegations that US forces in Iraq targeted a mosque. US
marines captured the mosque after a seven-hour gunfight, one marine was killed and
22 were wounded.
"The engagement. . .was in response to intelligence," he said. "We didn't have a
fight in a mosque. Our forces went to this area and were engaged by those forces
from inside that mosque," he said.
