The game launched on February 28, 2004 with a two-part mission that sent put gamers in control of 101st Airborne and Special Forces to hunt down and kill Uday and Qusay Hussain, sons of Saddam and leaders of his most notorious military units.

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Saddam's son Qusay ran Iraq's internal security operations at the time and is said to have routinely ordered executions just to keep numbers down.

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President Saddam Hussein named his younger son, Qusay, as one of the two Baath Party figures with operational control over Iraq's armed forces.

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Al Arabiya said the tape was recorded on July 20 -- two days before U.S. forces killed Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, according to U.S. officials.

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Ezzedine Al Majid says Uday and Qusay killed his wife and four children, as well as his cousins -- who were married to Saddam's two daughters.

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