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A cloud of dust and smoke billows out from a building hit with a TOW missile launched by soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) on July 22, 2003, in Mosul, Iraq. Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle as they resisted efforts by coalition forces to apprehend and detain them.

A cloud of dust and smoke billows out from a building hit with a TOW missile launched by the Army in Mosul.

A cloud of dust and smoke billows out from a building hit with a TOW missile launched by soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) on July 22, 2003, in Mosul, Iraq. Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle as they resisted efforts by coalition forces to apprehend and detain them.

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