Tikrit: The bodies of Saddam Hussain's once-feared sons Uday and Qusay have been disinterred and reburied outside the hall where their father was buried after he was hanged in December, relatives said yesterday. In the days after he was hanged, supporters of Saddam made a shrine of his burial site in a hall attached to a mosque in Awja, the village north of Baghdad where he was born, flocking to pay their respects at the flag-draped marble tomb. | Hope we're watching this site |
Saddam's two sons Uday and Qusay, killed by US troops in 2003, had been buried in a family plot in Awja's cemetery.
Ali Al Nida, head of the Albu Nasir tribe, said they were moved on Tuesday to a garden outside Saddam's burial hall and reburied beside the tombs of their uncle Barzan Erahim Al Tikriti, Saddam's half-brother, and another former Saddam aide. "It happened yesterday. We took the bodies from Awja cemetery and we put them close to the graves of Awad Al Bander and Barzan," Al Nida said. |