Diaries Could Lead to Saddam's Secret Backers

Times Online (UK) ^ | April 21,2003 | Daniel McGrory

[American Jingo]

Diaries could lead to Saddam's Secret Backers

THE secrets of Saddam Hussein's overseas business networks have been uncovered in the records of his eldest son, Uday, whose diary also reveals that he spied on his father. British intelligence got its hands on some of Uday's prolific collection of records before looters could make off with them. They are hopeful that the diaries will identify businessmen in Britain who helped to keep the regime in Baghdad afloat. A vain and temperamental figure, Uday insisted that every order he gave should be meticulously recorded in his office diaries, whether it be the Hollywood videos that he wanted to watch or the young women his aides had to procure. Jealous of his younger brother, Qusay, who was his father's favourite, the diaries reveal that Uday had embarked on a dangerous scheme of revenge by setting up a business empire to rival Saddam's, which involved blackmailing and threatening some of the former Iraqi leader's own emissaries. He had spies in his father's office and, just like Saddam, his diaries show how ruthless he was at playing off political rivals against each other, plotting against military commanders and using torture and murder to scare his own family, as well as close aides.The diaries show that he had discovered the identities of businessmen working abroad who were used by his father to flout United Nations sanctions. Some are understood to have homes and bank accounts in Britain.

[American Jingo]

Ladies and Gentlemen! Mark this day as the day when the small trickle of innunedo,rumor,information,denial, misinformation,disinformation,scandal,depravity, revelation and every thing else you've been hearing about began to gather momentum that eventually brought down the entire house of cards on which the Axis of Weasels built their glorious future on, as the entire giant stinking rotting pile of merde (French for Chirac's middle name or shit) begins to hit the huge proverbial fan of disastrous reality that will scandalously hit and implicate not only the motley secretive crew of Saddam's strange bedfellows, lackeys and supporters but also the scummy, duplicitous, venal,shameless nation-states such as reprehensible partners-in-crime the French and Germans! Oh! What a delicious lip-smacking time to be had by all!

[rs79bm]

We already know who they are....France, Germany, Russia........

[tracer]

Call me a tin-foiler if you wish, but I still maintain my suspicion that some of Iraq's WMDs have been moved to France....

[Cobra64]

Now THAT was a very loooonng sentence. I liked the content, and liked the sentiments and your opinion. Like waiting for the birthday balloon to spin around the room when the valve is released. ZING!!! Cheers.

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[Prince Charles]

Bump.

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[Indrid Cold]

"Uday insisted that every order he gave should be meticulously recorded in his office diaries..."

You'd think he'd have learned from Nixon's example.