The Brutes of Baghdad

Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 27MAR03 | Barbara Laker

[Lancey Howard]

Posted on Fri, Mar. 28, 2003

THE BRUTES OF BAGHDAD IF SADDAM RAISED HIS TWO SONS TO BE AS VICIOUS HE IS, THEY'RE DOING HIM PROUD By BARBARA LAKER lakerb@phillynews.com

ONE IS a sadistic playboy who rapes 12-year-old girls and tortures friends for amusement.

The other is a methodical, ruthless enforcer who kills for political power, then has his victims buried in mass graves.

They are Saddam Hussein's infamous sons - two evil brothers with blood on their hands.

The Brutes of Baghdad.

As bombs and missiles chisel away at their father's regime, it's unknown if Odai and Qusai Hussein are dead or alive. But one thing seems certain: They would kill anyone, whether it's thousands of strangers or their closest relatives, to survive.

Qusai, Saddam's youngest son at 36, who controls Iraq's security and intelligence agencies, is probably his father's successor. Odai, 38, was shot at least eight times in 1996 when gunmen sprayed bullets at his car. The once athletic and tall Odai now uses a wheelchair or limps with a cane.

The sons "differ only in that Odai kills people for fun, and Qusai kills people in a very businesslike fashion," former CIA chief R. James Woolsey reportedly said.

Odai, considered the family's most heartless, has at times been called the "Butcher's Boy and" has a private torture chamber known as the "Red Room."

As a young child, he played with disarmed grenades and saw his father deal with political enemies in his torture chamber at the Palace of the End.

In 1988, he murdered his father's trusted food taster, bodyguard and pimp at a party on the Tigris River, according to the May issue of Vanity Fair.

Saddam threw Odai in jail, and eventually forgave him, but the relationship was tarnished. And Odai grew more ruthless.

Over the years, he shot Saddam's beloved half-brother in the leg and crippled him for life. One unfortunate friend died after being held down and forced to drink massive amounts of pure distilled alcohol. Those who crossed him in business were shot in the arm and leg and left to die, defectors told Vanity Fair.

Starting at 20, Odai used his sadistic ways on athletes when Saddam made him head of Iraq's National Olympic Committee and its soccer federation. With young people demoralized by the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam thought Odai could restore national pride through sports.

The March 24 issue of Sports Illustrated describes the brutality that sports stars endured. Latif Yahia, a body double for Odai, told the magazine that a boxer who had been knocked out in the first round was ushered into Odai's office.

"This is how you box?" Odai screamed at the manacled boxer as he threw punch after punch. Odai then jolted him in the chest with an electric prod, shaved his eyebrow, an insult to Muslim men, and told his aide to take him downstairs and finish the job. Yahia never heard of the boxer again.

In 2001, Amnesty International reported that Odai had ordered the hand of a security officer be chopped off after the man was accused of stealing sports equipment that later turned up.

A former soccer player, Sharar Haddar, said Odai dragged him and his teammates over concrete, pulling skin off their backs. They were then yanked through a pit so that sand stuck to their raw skin, and made to jump in a vat of sewage.

The soles of their feet were then beaten, a form of torture and punishment for losing a match.

Iraqi defectors have told British and U.S. officials gruesome tales of rape. Odai, they said, forced teachers in Baghdad's poorest schools to send 12-year-old girls to the palace to be raped.

Odai, defectors say, likes virgins, knowing young girls cannot get married in Iraq after being raped.

"He likes joking with his friends, 'Look at her, after this, she'll be a prostitute,' " one defector told Vanity Fair.

If the girls resist, his bodyguards dangle them over a wooden beam and bash them with a wooden club.

He warns victims not to flinch from the beating, defectors report, or they will have their legs broken. He hits them up to 50 times. When they're writhing in pain and can barely walk, he orders them to dance.

Some business associates who showed up late for a meeting were branded on the buttocks with hot irons.

"This mark is never going to go from your body, so you'll remember me until the day you die," Odai reportedly tells them.

Odai, who also controls the country's media, is the flamboyant one known to drive a red Porsche and wear a $3 million ring. Qusai is the quiet, behind-the-scenes man with three sons who has never given a public speech.

Qusai, now in charge of the Republican Guard, earned his father's respect by helping to suppress a Shiite rebellion soon after the first Gulf War.

He rounded up hundreds and put them in warehouses, defectors say. Men, women and children prisoners were stripped naked. He questioned many himself and they were shot immediately if they didn't cooperate. Most victims were buried in mass graves dug by bulldozers.

He had others tortured. Five years ago, 20 senior army officers were arrested for plotting against Saddam, according to defectors. Qusai had them strung up by their thumbs and lowered into vats of boiling water while he forced other officers to watch. Other reports claim he forced suspected dissidents to watch as their wives and children were gang-raped.

While Qusai may be the second most powerful man in Iraq, it was his flashy brother who delivered the family message when President Bush gave them 48 hours to leave.

Iraqi forces will prevail, Odai bellowed.

The mothers of U.S. soldiers will "weep blood instead of tears."

[martianagent]

The thing is, 100 years ago, such a regime in Iraq or North Korea did not conceivably pose any threat to us. Given todays realities, they do.

[oyez]

Frank is envious. Just think what he would if he had the leverage.

[Lancey Howard]

Truly replusive. These people are not human.

For anybody who thinks that places like "the red room" exist only in Hollywood movies, this should open their eyes, at least a little. Reality can be far, far worse than fiction.

[Lancey Howard]

The thing is, 100 years ago, such a regime in Iraq or North Korea did not conceivably pose any threat to us. Given todays realities, they do.

Yes.
This kind of evil knows no borders. And this regime is pure evil.

I only wonder what George Bush and others know that they can't say. Because if what is in this article is what is known, there must be 100 times as much that is not known.

[Lancey Howard]

By the way, anybody think Scott Ritter is not fully aware of these atrocities? And speaking of Hollywood, nothing highlights the ignorance of those peacenik clowns like the truth. But they will never read an article like this one.

[MeekOneGOP]

bttt for later read. Thanks, folks ! . . .

[sarasmom]

bump

[Lancey Howard]

bttt

[gwmoore]

Thanks for the ping, Saber. These animals need to be dealt with and for once, someone has to have the cojones to show this on all the TV links once they are captured. The same justice should be meted out to those who shot POW's, etc.

Method of justice: Death by Hanging (No Drop)..

Keep the Faith for Freedom

Greg

[rmlew]

Odai isn;t the only one who likes young girls.
Pedophiles stick together.

[laz17]

The "war protestors" say we should leave these people alone.

Because the war protestors are just as evil as the scum they are in overdrive trying to protect. Disregard their naivete and ignorance, for those are merely disguises they wear to pretend they're not evil. It is way past the point that anyone can possibly claim they aren't aware of the monstrous evil of Saddam and his regime. They have seen the truth, and they don't care. These are people who would form a human chain around Satan himself to protect him from God.

[Lancey Howard]

These are people who would form a human chain around Satan himself to protect him from God.

They have, in fact, been doing exactly that for years.

[Lancey Howard]

Odai, they said, forced teachers in Baghdad's poorest schools to send 12-year-old girls to the palace to be raped..... Odai, defectors say, likes virgins, knowing young girls cannot get married in Iraq after being raped..... "He likes joking with his friends, 'Look at her, after this, she'll be a prostitute,' "

Democrats....liberals....aging hippie "war protestors"....Planned Parenthood....National Organization for Women....Eleanor Smeal....Patricia Ireland....Al Sharpton....Nancy Pelosi....Tom Daschle....
They all hang together. They are all on the same side.

[RipSawyer]

"Method of justice: Death by Hanging (No Drop).."


Not only no drop but no lift, just tighten the rope just enough so that he can breathe freely while standing flat footed but cannot get the noose off and then just let nature take its course.
Oh, and just to make it a little more interesting you could have him standing in a bed of good old fire ants.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I had a hard time reading this. This is sick! However, I remember reading this before…

The soles of their feet were then beaten, a form of torture and punishment for losing a match. (by Odai, Saddam's son)

Koran (5:33) "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messengers ' is execution or crucifixion or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides."

Iraqi defectors have told British and U.S. officials gruesome tales of rape. Odai, they said, forced teachers in Baghdad's poorest schools to send 12-year-old girls to the palace to be raped.

Koran (2:269) "He granteth wisdom to whom He pleaseth."

Odai, defectors say, likes virgins, knowing young girls cannot get married in Iraq after being raped.

Koran (55:52-66) "Shall the reward of goodness be anything but good?...Dark-eyed virgins sheltered in their tents...They shall recline on green cushions and fine carpets...Blessed be the name of your Lord..."

"He (Odai) likes joking with his friends, 'Look at her, after this, she'll be a prostitute,' " one defector told Vanity Fair.

Koran (19:86) "And We shall drive the sinners to Hell, like thirsty cattle driven to water."

Over the years, he shot Saddam's beloved half-brother in the leg and crippled him for life. One unfortunate friend died after being held down and forced to drink massive amounts of pure distilled alcohol.

Koran (56:55) "Indeed ye shall drink (the Boiling Water) like diseased camels raging with thirst."

Qusai, now in charge of the Republican Guard, earned his father's respect by helping to suppress a Shiite rebellion soon after the first Gulf War. He rounded up hundreds and put them in warehouses, defectors say. Men, women and children prisoners were stripped naked. He questioned many himself and they were shot immediately if they didn't cooperate. Most victims were buried in mass graves dug by bulldozers.

Koran (4:89) "' if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them."

He had others tortured. Five years ago, 20 senior army officers were arrested for plotting against Saddam, according to defectors. Qusai had them strung up by their thumbs and lowered into vats of boiling water while he forced other officers to watch. Other reports claim he forced suspected dissidents to watch as their wives and children were gang-raped.

Koran (21:15) "And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, as ashes silent and quenched."

[Sabertooth]

From the Book of Matthew, chapter 7...

7:15

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

7:16

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

7:17

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

7:18

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

7:19

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

7:20

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

And we know how rotten the fruit is. There are over 800 quotes in the Koran, which are very similar to the ones I posted. The rise of Islam has brought misery and near annihilation to entire populations which were not Islamic.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Thorondir]

iSLAM is a sick, satanic death cult. Its only moral equivalence can be found in Aztec canibal religions and the murderous Indian Thuggee cult. Thank God those Religions of Peace are long gone. May the same come true for iSLAM; so that its reign of oppression, rape, misogyny and murder will come to an end.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I agree.