The villa in Mosul that was the scene of the last stand of Uday and Qusay, the sons of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussain, still smoulders after the US bombardment. Acting on a tip-off almost 400 American soldiers backed by air support surrounded the building. They soon came under fire from within. What followed was a six hour gun battle - witnesses say US helicopter gun ships fired at least 20 missiles into the building said to be owned by one of Saddam's distant relatives. Not everyone in the country was pleased by the news of the deaths of the brothers. Spontaneous pro-Saddam demonstrations broke out with protesters chanting loyalty to Saddam and waving the Iraqi Dinar, now a symbol of Iraqi resistance to coalition forces. Mosul, the third largest city in the north of the country, is Iraq's most ethnically mixed city. It contains several tribes of Sunni Muslims known to have had close relations with the former Iraqi leader's family in the past. Meanwhile attacks against US military personnel continue, one American soldier was killed and seven injured after a remote control device exploded near a military vehicle in the same city. Another died in a similar attack in Ramadi, west of the capital Baghdad. It brings to 41 the number of US service people killed since major combat ended on May 1st. **US to Provide Proof Uday and Qusay Dead as Another Former Iraqi Official Captured*** The United States said it will provide proof to the public that Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a gunbattle at the Iraqi city of Mosul, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Wednesday. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told a news conference that dental records, X-rays and four former senior figures from the Saddam regime helped establish certainty that the two sons were killed in the six-hour gunbattle. Sanchez said that the US Army would provide proof "in due time" to the Iraqi people that Uday and Qusay were dead. Earlier, it was reported that the U.S. military was considering publishing photographs of the bodies, CNN reported. Pentagon officials were quoted as saying that pictures of the bodies, which were badly shot up, show Saddam's sons and are clearly recognizable. Sanchez also announced that the head of the Special Republican Guard, Barzan Abd al-Ghafur Sulayman Majid al-Tikriti, was captured. According to him, al-Tikriti was detained on Wednesday. Sanchez said U.S. forces would continue to search for other fugitive members of the former regime, including its leader. "The ultimate objective is Saddam Hussein. We maintain the focus on all the high-value targets and we will not fail," he said. "The Saddam Hussein regime will never come back into power. We will ensure the freedom of the Iraqi people." **Saddam Warns in New Tape: War is not Over*** Just one day following the deaths of ousted leader Saddam Hussein's two sons, Al-Arabiya broadcast a purported Saddam tape, in which the former president warns war is not over. The Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television channel on Wednesday broadcast a taped message purportedly from Saddam, as saying, "The war (against the US-led forces) is not over. The war is not finished." The speaker added that the tape was recorded July 20. "The only correct assertion will be when the enemy officially announces that the war is not finished because the war is not over, politically or militarily," the speaker said. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Photo released by the US Defense Department (DOD), shows flames erupting from a building hit with a TOW missile launched by soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) on in Mosul, Iraq. (AFP/US Defence Department/Curtis G. Hargrave)