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An American general says U.S. forces used dental records, medical records, and former Iraqi officials to identify the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday.

General Ricardo Sanchez says four members of the ousted Saddam regime identified the bodies after the U.S. operation in the city of Mosul in which the Hussein brothers were killed.

Speaking at a news conference Wednesday in Baghdad, General Sanchez said pictures of the bodies would be shown in "due time." Several reporters told the general that Iraqis would not believe the brothers were dead until they were given visual evidence.

General Sanchez also gave details of Tuesday's military operation at a Mosul villa. He says U.S. soldiers who had surrounded the house gave Qusay and Uday 10 minutes to surrender before a group tried to enter. He says the group withdrew after gunfire from the second floor wounded four U.S. soldiers.

General Sanchez says he believes Qusay and Uday were killed about three hours later when U.S. forces fired 10 missiles into the house.

On a related matter, General Sanchez announced that U.S. forces have captured the former commander of Iraq's Special Republican Guard. Barzan Abd al-Ghafur Sulayman Majid was number 11 on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis.

Qusay and Uday ranked numbers two and three on the list. U.S. forces now have at least 37 of the 55 Iraqis on the list in custody.

Meanwhile, two American soldiers have been killed and nine others wounded Wednesday by attacks in Iraq.