The 2003 Mosul raid was an American military operation conducted on July 22, 2003, in the city of Mosul, Iraq, which led to the killing of Uday Hussein and Qusay Hussein, both sons of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The operation, originally intended to apprehend the Hussein brothers, turned into a four-hour gun battle outside a fortified safehouse which ended with the death of both Hussein brothers, a 14-year-old relative, and a bodyguard.