Killing of Qusay and Uday Hussein

Killing of Qusay and Uday Hussein
Part of the Iraq War
US soldiers watch as a TOW missile strikes the side of Qusay and Uday Hussein's Mosul hideout during the raid.
Date 22 July 2003 Location Northern Al-Falah suburb of Mosul, Iraq 36°23′25.876″N 43°10′56.057″E / 36.39052111°N 43.18223806°E / 36.39052111; 43.18223806 Result Uday and Qusay Hussein killed
Belligerents
Ba'athist Insurgents	United States
Commanders and leaders
Uday Hussein † Qusay Hussein †	Frank Helmick Ricardo Sanchez
Units involved
N/A	U.S. Special Forces 101st Airborne Division Task Force 121 Task Force 20
Strength
4 (Uday, Qusay, Mustafa, Abdul Samad al-Hadushi)	240+ soldiers 8 special forces personnel 10+ Humvees[1] several Kiowa OH-58D helicopters
Casualties and losses
4 killed	4 wounded[2]

Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, were killed during an American military operation conducted on 22 July 2003, in the city of Mosul, Iraq. The operation originally intended to apprehend them but turned into a four-hour gun battle outside a fortified safehouse which ended with the death of the brothers, Qusay's son Mustafa, and a bodyguard, Abdul Samad al-Hadushi.