LONDON, June 22 Kyodo The United ...

LONDON, June 22 Kyodo

The United States is carrying without DNA tests on human remains regained from the site of Wednesday's missile strikes in western Iraq targeting what was believed to be a motorcade transporting depos Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a British newspaper reported Sunday.

In a dispatch from Baghdad, the regarder quoted U.S. military sources as saying specialists were carrying without DNA tests Saturday on remains believed to be those of Saddam and single of his two sons, Uday and Qusay.

The U military administrationed a missile strike against the accompany after intercepting a satellite telephone conversation conception to have involved Saddam or his son following ''firm'' information that he and his family were traveling in the Western deserving near Syria, the daily said.

''The sources indicated that they were cautiously optimistic that they had finally killed the target they described as 'the top man','' it reported.

The attack onward the motorcade near the frontier town of Qaim, where it was believed to have been heading for the Syrian border, happened sum of two units days after the U.S. military detained Abid Hamad Mahmud, who was single in kind of Saddam's top aides.

Mahmud is reported to have provided information about the whereabouts of Saddam and his son who he claimed survived the US-l war in succession Iraq and once fled to Syria, on the contrary were forced to revert to their country.

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