The sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay, have been buried in the family cemetery in their home town of Tikrit, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society and the US military said.
Buried with the brothers was 14-year-old Mustafa Hussein, Qusay's son, who was also was believed to have been killed in a fierce gun battle with US troops on July 22nd in Mosul.
A military official said the funeral ceremony at the family cemetery was quiet and uneventful.
Iraqi Red Crescent Society president Mr Jamal al-Karboli said his organisation had taken the bodies from the US military in Tikrit. The military said it had nothing to do with the transfer of the bodies to Tikrit.
Mr Al-Karboli said Saddam's relatives approached the Red Crescent four days ago, asking it to act as an intermediary in recovering the bodies.
The bodies of the two men were being held in refrigeration at the US base at Baghdad International Airport where they were prepared for burial according to western - not Muslim - custom by military morticians.
The handling of the bodies, including autopsies conducted by the military, had set up a controversy throughout Iraq. Muslim tradition calls for bodies not to be embalmed or in any way retouched and for them to be buried before sundown on the day of death.
The brothers faces were heavily restored by the US military morticians and western reporters were allowed to view them and take still pictures and videotape.
Those images were flashed across the Arab world by satellite broadcasters. The US military obviously was trying to convince sceptical Iraqis the men were dead.
Some locals in Tikrit, a stronghold of support for Saddam, said they regarded the dead brothers as martyrs. "They are the heroes of Iraq," one said.
US officials declined to comment on the burial, saying they would make a statement later.
Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division swooped on a house in Tikrit overnight and seized a man suspected of organising attacks on US troops, in the latest of a series of raids that US officers say are closing in on Saddam himself.