Today in Manhunting History -- July 19, 2003: The Tip that Doomed the Hussein Brothers

On July 19, U.S. forces received a tip that Uday and Qusay were hiding in the northern city of Mosul. The informant failed a polygraph test, however, causing U.S. military officials to dismiss the tipster. But intelligence units soon picked up signal intercepts suggesting the possible presence of HVTs in the same location in Mosul that the source had identified. Just as they began investigating this lead, an Iraqi businessman named Nawaf al-Zaydan Mohammed approached U.S. forces and told them the brothers were staying at his house in Mosul’s Falah district. The Americans told him to go back to the house, act normally, and wait for U.S. troops to arrive . . .  

Saddam and sons (Uday on the left, Qusay on the right) sometime before Operation Iraqi Freedom.