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Saddam's son beats 12-year-olds who say no to sex: defectors
The Sydney Morning Herald ^ | March 21, 2003 | Unknown

Posted on 03/21/2003 2:09:09 PM PST by EllaMinnow

Saddam Hussein's eldest son mercilessly beats girls as young as 12 on the soles of their feet if they refuse to sleep with him, Iraqi defectors said today.

Uday Hussein forces head teachers of schools in Baghdad's poorest districts to send pupils to his palace where he arranges dates with those he likes.

If the chosen girls annoy him in anyway they are dangled over a wooden beam held by his bodyguards and repeatedly hit with a wooden club, according to two former members of his inner circle who recently fled Iraq.

"He does it to a girl if she says she doesn't want to go out with him, or if she finds another boyfriend, or is late or reluctant," one defector told Vanity Fair magazine.

The 38-year-old warns victims not to flinch while the beating is administered or they will have their legs broken. He often hits them up to 50 times, the report claimed.

Afterwards, when they can barely walk, he orders them to dance.

Uday, head of Iraq's Olympic Committee, was known to have beaten football players and athletes when they lost.

The defectors said he also inflicted beatings, imprisonment and torture on close friends and business associates - simply for being late to a meeting or irritating him.

His punishments have become more brutal since an assassination attempt in 1996 which left him with walking difficulties and problems having sex.

Some victims have been branded on the buttocks with hot irons.

"Uday tells them, 'this mark is never going to go from your body, so you'll remember me until the day you die'," one defector said.

One former friend died after being held down and made to drink huge quantities of pure alcohol.

Business rivals have been shot in the arm or a leg and then allowed to bleed slowly to death.

Uday also likes to deflower virginity, knowing that no one will touch them after he has slept with them, the defectors said.

"He likes joking about with his friends: 'look at her, after this she'll be a prostitute'."

The defectors have been debriefed by MI6 and Pentagon officials and are regarded as reliable sources on the workings of Saddam's regime, the magazine said.

Intelligence officials believe Uday may have been in the bunker hit by a cruise missile in the "decapitation strike" on Baghdad in the first hours of the war.

His younger brother, Qusay, is Saddam's heir after Uday fell out of favour when he murdered a close friend of his father in 1988.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hussein; iraq; iraqidefectors; qusay; saddam; uday
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To: Tax-chick
Excellent story! Hurrah for the Old Dominion!
181 posted on 03/23/2003 8:17:05 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: sweetliberty
an assassination attempt in 1996 which left him with ...problems having sex.

Snipers have a sense of humor.

182 posted on 03/23/2003 8:19:12 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: stanz
I'd like to know why what the Pope has to say even matters at all when it comes to foreign policy. I don't suggest that he behave one way or the other. It's inconsequential to me,but obviously not to others.

That's just the point: It doesn't matter what the Pope has to say. He has no army. He can't create a trade embargo with fangs. He is making spiritual suggestions. And for you to take umbrage at those suggestions shows your ignorance. You are completely missing the context.

183 posted on 03/23/2003 7:33:11 PM PST by WaveThatFlag
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To: WaveThatFlag
You know what? I'm sick and tired of having to be told that I'm ignorant because I and others point out that the Pope was dead wrong. Admit it, by not backing the members of the coalition, he undermined their efforts. Period. That's what we started out saying and that's what we continue to say now. I'm not going to continue arguing with you. Let's agree to disagree.
184 posted on 03/23/2003 7:45:37 PM PST by stanz
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To: WaveThatFlag
You know what? I'm sick and tired of having to be told that I'm ignorant because I point out that the Pope was dead wrong. Admit it, by not backing the coalition, he is undermining their efforts. Period. That's what I started out saying and that's what I continue to say now.
185 posted on 03/23/2003 7:46:43 PM PST by stanz
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To: WaveThatFlag
Ignore the second post. It somehow got posted twice and was incomplete. Sorry.
186 posted on 03/23/2003 7:48:06 PM PST by stanz
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To: Notwithstanding
Sorry not to have responded sooner. I got caught up in our "Support the Troops" rally in NYC. Anyway please read some of the comments on the following thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/875140/posts

187 posted on 03/25/2003 9:54:32 AM PST by stanz
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