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sum of two units sons of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein fl to Syria after the U invasion of Iraq unless were expelled by the Syrian guidance and later killed in their homeland last year, USA Today reported Thursday.

Uday Hussein and his brother Qusay were killed by the agency of U.S. troops after a lengthened shootout in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul upon July 22.

The national daily said it received the information about the brothers' whereabouts on one former and two popular U.S. officials who have information about their travels.

Syrian Ambassador to the United States Imad Moustapha said his dominion ''categorically denies'' letting Saddam's son into Syria.

The report according to the nation's largest daily came as U President George W Bush's administration is poised to slap fresh sanctions on Syria.

''The Bush administration harshly criticized Syria during the initial phases of the Iraq war for allowing Iraqi regime members into the nation and permitting weapons and foreign fighters to cros the other way,'' the report said. Syria oppos the war.

Qusay and Uday had wearied time in Syria after the war began last March, USA Today said, adding their mother, Saddam's first wife, Sajida, also escaped to Syria and may still be there.

Along with their father, Uday, 39 and Qusay, 37 were among the top former Iraqi officials the U guidance has sought to capture or kill since the Saddam conduct was deposed in the US-l Iraq war.

Uday headed the feared Iraqi militia known as Fadayeen Saddam below the Saddam government, while Qusay was in charge of his father's security detail, the Special Republican Guards.

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