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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --The commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq on Wednesday said the assault that killed Uday and Qusay Hussein on Tuesday in Mosul was a staged operation that opened with grenade launchers and ended with the firing of almost a dozen missiles.

Ground forces, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez said, included an anti-tank platoon as members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division and Special Operations Forces were brought into play.

U.S. Air Force personnel were on standby, as helicopters were deployed in the opening phase of the attack, which secured the ground floor of the building in Mosul, he said. (Map)

Iraqi police participated, Sanchez said, by setting up a cordon around the area of the assault. U.S. forces made two attempts to enter the large villa in Mosul before they were successful in quelling the resistance they encountered.

Fifty-caliber machine guns and 10 Humvee-mounted TOW missiles were used as the effort progressed to take the second floor of the ...