"Killing Saddam’s Sons Gains Resistance Momentum"

Robert Fisk said in his article published in the Independent that there is a fundamental misunderstanding between the American occupation authorities in Iraq and the people whose country they are occupying that the entire resistance to " America ‘s proconsulship of Iraq " is composed of "remnants" of Saddam’s followers "dead-enders" and "bitter-enders."

"Their theory is that once the Hussein family is decapitated, the resistance will end," he said.

U.S. military officials on the ground said they had identified the bodied of Qusay and Uday who were reportedly killed in an attack on a house at al-Falah district in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, July 22.

"The burned, bullet-splashed villa in Mosul, the four bullet-ridden corpses, America’s hopes – however vain – that the death of Saddam Hussein’s two sons, Uday and Qusay, will break the guerrilla resistance to Iraq’s U.S. occupation troops, all conspired to produce an illusion last night," Fisk said, referring to the U.S. bids to leave the impression that the Iraqi resistance was in its throes by the incident.

But Fisk says that the killing of Qusay, Uday and even the much-hoped of Saddam himself will only gain the Iraqi resistance momentum in the days ahead, given that the members of the Iraqi resistance along with the Sunni community in the war-scarred country never had any love for Saddam.

"If he and his sons are dead, the chances are that the opposition to the American-led occupation will grow rather than diminish – on the grounds that with Saddam gone, Iraqis will have nothing to lose by fighting the Americans," Fisk said.

"Many Iraqis were (also) reluctant to support the resistance for fear that an end to American occupation would mean the return of the ghastly old dictator," he added.