US troops dig bones in search for Saddam

United States troops dug bones from a Baghdad bomb site yesterday after launching a fresh search to see whether Saddam Hussein and his sons survived a bid to kill them in April with bunker-busting bombs.

Lieutenant-General David McKiernan, the top US commander in Iraq, said a more thorough search of the site in the upscale Mansour neighbourhood of Baghdad had begun after intelligence reports suggested human remains were buried under the rubble.



Locals in Mansour say several civilians died in the bombing, and some bodies have not yet been recovered.

Herald Feature: Iraq