Video: Attack Damage Killing Saddam's Sons
M O S U L, Iraq, July 24, 2003 -- The first pictures from inside the house show the effects of the devastating American assault that killed Odai and Qusai Hussein on Tuesday.
The images show the ornately furnished living room in pieces and the marble staircase to the second floor where three U.S. soldiers were injured. The holes along the wall, according to soldiers, are from bullets fired at American troops by Saddam Hussein's sons or the two other Iraqis upstairs.
U.S. forces concentrated their firepower on the second floor, where the U.S. military says the four Iraqis barricaded themselves. These rooms are the most heavily damaged. One wall was blackened by rocket explosions, another shattered by several direct hits.
The bathroom was completely blown out. A child's doll sits amid the rubble.
According to a soldier who took part in the raid, a hole in the rear of the house is the result of an antitank missile strike fired so commanders could see into the second floor.
Rockets and missiles opened up the front of the home as well where U.S. forces entered. It is in the central part of the house, away from the windows and outside walls, that military officials say Odai and Qusai Hussein died.