<p>WEST OF BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops have not yet cooked Saddam Hussein’s goose, but they’ve eaten a lot of his son’s chicken.</p>
<p>The opportunity for the unexpected feast, all the more welcome for exhausted soldiers who have eaten little but MREs for the last two weeks, came April 4 when soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized)’s 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment happened upon an estate owned by Hussein’s eldest son, Uday. The troops were trying to locate the source of a mortar that had shelled the squadron’s tactical operations center about 9 miles southwest of Baghdad. Locals told them that a nearby estate belonged to Uday, a man with an international reputation for combining a playboy lifestyle with thuggish brutality.</p>