''Mustafa Hussein: Genesis of a legend'' (14 yr. old son)

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http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1508&mode=thread&order=0


(YellowTimes.org) – On July 22, 2003, American soldiers with enough sophisticated weaponry to start a small war attacked an upscale villa in the al-Falah neighborhood of Mosul for the purpose of killing Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay. The four people in the villa, who defended themselves with only small arms for approximately four hours, included an aide to one of the brothers and Qusay's 14-year old son, Mustafa.

But, according to information available as of July 27, after the three adults were killed and killed again and again (ten to twenty anti-tank missiles, depending upon the source, but undeniably by a 50-to-1 ratio), 14-year old Mustafa, grandson to Saddam Hussein, held off eighty or more soldiers until he, too, was finally overcome and shot to death.

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And however much some want to demonize any Muslim or any Iraqi who is not willing to kneel at their invaders' feet, can they truly not be touched at the story, if it is accurate, of a child fighting to the death against all odds?

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If this story is placed in the general "We vs. They" context, it must surely be accepted that "we" have no heroes here. "They" have one, one so potentially explosive that it could draw millions of neutral Iraqis into the resistance.
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article has much more detail then I could put here.