They have also managed to sit in on a dinner party with Uday and Qusay Hussein, the president's odious sons, and piece together the life-style of his inner circle with fascinating detail.

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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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Most Iraqis celebrated with gunfire the night they heard of the deaths of Uday and his brother Qusay Hussein.

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