'Saddam' audiotape acknowledges sons' deaths

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

TIKRIT, Iraq -- In a new audiotape attributed Tuesday to Saddam Hussein, a calm voice acknowledged the deaths of the ousted dictator's two sons and called them martyrs. U.S. forces searched for clues to Saddam's whereabouts in documents and photo albums seized in his hometown.

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