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Saddam Hussein ordered Iraq's central bank to withdraw $1 billion for his youngest son the day before the invasion to stop it falling into foreign hands, according to a leaked letter apparently written by the former dictator. In a hand-written note to the bank's governor, marked "top secret" and dated March 19, 2003, the former president told Isam Huwaish to give $920 million and 90 million euros to his son Qusay and another man, al-Mashriq newspaper reported yesterday. The Iraqi national broadsheet reproduced the letter, which appears to bear Saddam's signature. Saddam sent bank a hand-written note Employees of the...

BAGHDAD, July 13 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - President Saddam Hussein's powerful elder son Uday has warned an Iranian dissident that the U.S. intents on carving up the region, and won't stop at Iraq, according to remarks published Saturday, July 13. "After Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Iran's turn will come," Uday told the Iraq-based dissident, Tareq Abdul Karim Naama, at a meeting earlier this week. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) said that Uday, writing under a pseudonym, had charged in the July 7 edition of the Babel daily he runs that the United States had "drawn up a plan aimed at...