Saddam Son's Palace Has Zoo, Alcohol, Heroin, Nude Photos [New Info]

Dows Jones News | 4/14/03 | Dow Jones Staff

[BunnySlippers]

Saddam Son's Palace Has Zoo, Alcohol, Heroin, Nude Photos

BAGHDAD (AP)--Odai Hussein's personal zoo has lions, cheetahs and a bear. His storehouse has $1 million of fine wines, liquors and heroin. His house has Cuban cigars, cases of champagne and downloaded pictures of prostitutes.

While most Iraqis bent under the brunt of U.N. sanctions that drove their country into poverty, Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Odai, lived a life of fast cars, expensive liquor and easy women, a tour through his bombed house showed Monday.

The walls of a gym were plastered with photographs of women downloaded from the Internet - "the biggest collection of naked women I'd ever seen," said U.S. Army Capt. Ed Ballanco. "It looked like something at the Playboy Mansion."

Among the photos were those of Jenna and Barbara Bush, the U.S. president's twin 21-year-old daughters, "dressed up very nice in evening clothes," Ballanco said, adding that soldiers took them down "to protect the president."

Odai Hussein's compound is in a back corner of the sprawling Presidential Palace compound, a small city that boasts six-lane avenues, traffic lights and a hospital. U.S. soldiers who now occupy the grounds say they believe Odai's portion included a house, a warehouse, a gym, a harem and a zoo.

The house clearly belonged to Odai. Scattered among the debris from a bomb that tore through it and exploded in a bunker below lay stationery with Odai's name in gold lettering, photographs of Odai and dozens of copies of Odai's doctoral dissertation, "The World After the Cold War."

The house also indicated Odai's sybaritic side that Iraqi dissenters had told of for decades: a hunger for alcohol, drugs and lots and lots of women.

There were bottles of Cuervo 1800 tequila, Danska vodka and Delamain cognac, as well as Chimay, Corona and Miller Genuine Draft beers.

There were bags and boxes of pills and medicines everywhere - ginseng sexual fortifiers, heartburn medication and Prozac - and an Accu-Rite HIV Antibodies Screening Test Kit in Odai's office.

An e-mail dated Dec. 22, 2000, and signed by a Dr. Jean-Jacques Barrault instructed "His Excellency" to undergo electrotherapy for a knee injury and to swim and ride horses for no more than 40 minutes a day. It prescribed a regimen of daily exercises.

In 1996, gunmen sprayed bullets at Odai's Porsche, leaving him with a bullet in his spine that forced him to walk with a cane.

The house was filled with boxes from handguns and piles of magazines including "Guns and Ammo" and "Guns," as well as Spanish car magazines and catalogues of JetSkis.

Soldiers said they found receipts for sports cars signed by Odai. The underground parking garage and the indoor swimming pool were destroyed by bombing that gutted the center of the house.

In the next-door storehouse - which soldiers dubbed the "crackhouse," then declared off-limits for fear the troops would raid the liquor - are roomfuls of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Ballanco estimated the alcohol's worth at US$1 million.

"You had Dom Perignon, French wines - all appellation controlee (a quality guarantee), some 30-40 years old - a lot of very good brandy, a lot of good whiskey," he said. "There were boxes of Cuban cigars that said `Odai Saddam Hussein' on them, hundreds of them. My guys smoked them."

He said there were also six bags of heroin. He didn't know how much they held.

"There are UNICEF boxes in there with kids' school supplies meant for the children of Iraq, yet these jerks took it in there," said Maj. Kent Rideout.

Odai's obsession with sex was evident everywhere. The house was adorned with paintings of naked women, as well as bundles of Internet printouts of what appeared to be prostitutes, complete with handwritten ratings of each. One little black book listed hundreds of women's names and phone numbers.

There were posters of university graduating classes, lending some credence to accusations that Odai scoped out female graduates so he could order them abducted for his sexual pleasure.

An E-mail printout was a complaint from a woman that she was having a hard time finding heterosexual men in Europe.

"Darling, babe, it's not good timing to send me sexy attachment. OH BOY where am I going to get one guy?" it read in English.

Odai's bed was painted in gold trim, and his bathroom featured a sink and tub fitted with fixtures in a swan motif.

One house apparently wasn't big enough for Odai's women. To one side, a gaudy house filled with bedrooms that is now a camp for U.S. soldiers appears to have been a harem.

It has statuettes of couples in foreplay, and couches everywhere with fluffy pillows. It boasts another swimming pool, with a bar.

"The pink and the cheesiness suggest it was a concubines' house," Ballanco said.

Behind the house was a pen holding two cheetahs, five lion cubs and a young bear.

Three German Shepherds who guarded the compound have been adopted by soldiers, who feed them military rations. For the wilder animals, soldiers have been throwing in sheep from a nearby pen, said Spc. Pete Adams.

A feeding Sunday, he said, "looked like something from the National Geographic Channel."

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[LuisBasco]

Odai Hussein's personal zoo has lions, cheetahs and a bear. His storehouse has $1 million of fine wines, liquors and heroin. His house has Cuban cigars, cases of champagne and downloaded pictures of prostitutes.

Sounds like a friend of the high-living ex-marxist president of the USA!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He was turned off by her overbite.

[jazzyjen97]

Alcohol is available in virtually all Muslim countries. I guess you haven't read our Bible, but alcohol is also condemned in scripture.

[Happy2BMe]

"There were posters of university graduating classes, lending some credence to accusations that Odai scoped out female graduates so he could order them abducted for his sexual pleasure."

Wonder if some of the "graduating classes" were in the United States and if any of the "abductors" were in the same ring as the Iraqi soldiers who helped Timothy McVeigh bomb the Oklahoma City Federal Building?

This could get very, very interesting. I hope they find documentation positively linking Saddam with the OKC Bombing.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Among the photos were those of Jenna and Barbara Bush, the U.S. president's twin 21-year-old daughters, "dressed up very nice in evening clothes," Ballanco said, adding that soldiers took them down "to protect the president."

I bet George and Laura Bush are just really happy about this - NOT!!!!!!!!!

[kcvl]

Estimates of Saddam's wealth range from $1billion to more than $20bn. Richard Armitage, the US Deputy Secretary of State, recently put it at $6bn. Whatever the case, it is clear that fresh intelligence could provide Iraq with a much-needed cash windfall. But without new leads from Saddam's defeated regime, most of the loot will almost certainly remain out of reach.

Some of these assets were eye-catching - they included classic cars and an 8.4 per cent stake in Hachette, the French company that publishes Elle.

A prominent figure in this report is Swiss-based Hassam Rassam, whom Kroll says has been suspected of running a pension fund for Saddam's family. It is reported that Rassam, a multi-millionaire, still makes frequent trips to Iraq.

In the early Nineties, Rassam was found to have lavished expensive gifts, including prostitutes, on Michael Allcock, a corrupt Inland Revenue inspector who conducted an investigation into UK-based Iraqis who were suspected of links to Tikriti. Rassam denies any connection to Tikriti, and when asked by this newspaper in 1991 if he was Saddam's banker, he laughed and replied: 'I wish I was.' The new Kroll report also states that large unrecovered quantities of gold, and $7bn in bank notes, believed to include arms bribes to senior Iraqis, were seen in Switzerland in 1991.

Despite the best efforts of America and Britain, oil has also remained a major source of wealth for the regime. Saddam has made about $2bn a year by imposing a surcharge on every barrel of oil sold under the UN's oil-for-food programme, according to the Coalition for International Justice.

[Happy2BMe]

"And, I thought the religion of peace did not condone the use of drugs and alcohol??????? Well, I guess it does after all!"

BWWaaahHaaaa!

You don't even know the tip of the iceberg on that one!

The wealthy of Islam have been in the sex-slave business for hundreds and hundreds of years - often kidnapping beautiful women from foreign countries.

You must remember, that in Islam, women are BOUGHT as wives (does this give you any idea).

Even in this article, it refers to the "graduation class" pictures. I'll be real interested in seeing what countries those were from.

The Saudis are famous for kidnapping (not just women, but BOYS as well)!

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[onehipdad]

To one side, a gaudy house filled with bedrooms that is now a camp for U.S. soldiers appears to have been a harem.

For the wilder animals, soldiers have been throwing in sheep from a nearby pen, said Spc. Pete Adams.

Ok, I can put two and two together...

[Happy2BMe]

"I wonder what PETA thinks about this? Maybe they should be feeding those cheetas soyburgers instead."

Do you sense a Dan Rather documentary coming on . . .?

Where are the antiwar and human rights protestors when you need them (barf).

[lepton]

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[Damocles]

Got a particular verse in mind?

[joesnuffy]

Sounds like a typical LA, Calif. Hollywood actor mogul lawyer drug dealer crooked politican or grafting contractor with ties to organized crime...

[AdA$tra]

The Husseins are to Islam as the Clintons are to Southern Baptists.

That about nails IT!

[FirstTomato]

Don't forget the Turks. Big slave traders, specialized in kidnapping young blonde girls of Europe for their harems. Ever notice how many blue-eyed Turks there are?

[razorback-bert]

Saddam Son's Palace, henceforth to be known as the Clinton Library Mid-Eastern Annex.

[muggs]

And, I thought the religion of peace did not condone the use of drugs and alcohol???????

That was probably for his concubines. If I had to be anywhere near Odai, I would need all the alcohol I could drink and all the heroin I could shoot.

[Frank_2001]

LOL!