BAGHDAD, July 24 (Xinhua) -- The United States civil administration in Baghdad released Thursday the post-mortem photos of Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay, who were killed in a six-hour gunbattle with US troops in Mosul in northern Iraq on Tuesday.

　　The US move was a imed at proving to sceptical Iraqis that the two brothers had been killed.

　　One of the photos showed Uday with a thick beard and severely bruised face.

　　The military has said the brothers and a third man, believed to have been a bodyguard, were killed by US missiles fired into the villa where they were hiding out Tuesday. End