A SENIOR aide to Saddam Hussein has described the dramatic moment when the dictator warned his sons they must accept defeat and go their separate ways. “It’s over. It’s over,” he is said to have told Uday and Qusay Hussein as they drove through the streets of Baghdad on April 11, two days after the city was captured by American forces. According to the aide, Saddam’s younger son, Qusay, sobbed and pleaded to be allowed to go into hiding with his father. But Saddam replied: “Splitting up gives us a better chance of survival.” The graphic description came last week...