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MIDI - CAMP GRENADA Bye bye, Qusai…bye bye Udai…we have finally…kicked your boot-tay Let's hope others…learn the lesson…with the great US of A do not be messin' When Slick Willy…was in power…you would never…have to cower Those good old days…you ran wild…little girls worried that they'd be defiled You were both sick…heartless bastards…for your nation…a disaster Had Gore stolen…the election…there would not have been the need to seek protection Bush had warned you…. to be leaving…your poor daddy…has been grieving No more sports cars…no more raping…from the morgue it's really hard to be escaping Is it hot where you're...

BAGHDAD -- The cold heart and playboy lifestyle of Udai Hussein are laid bare in the remnants of his charred and ransacked house on the Tigris River. There are love notes with lipstick kisses. There are photos of long-haired girls in short dresses. And there is a letter unsent in which Udai, passed over for his younger brother, Qusai, as the heir apparent to Saddam Hussein, expresses fear that his father's ambition would lead to the family's downfall. "I don't know about the future," notes the undated letter. "We are making problems for ourselves. . . . "My father wants...

Iraq: transmitters TV touched close to Baghdad, interruption of two chains Transmitters of television close to Baghdad were touched by bombardments Tuesday evening, which explains the interruption of the programs of two Iraqi chains, according to sources' with the television of Etat. The emissions of the television of State and that of the Youth, directed by Oudaï Saddam Hussein, the elder son of the Iraqi president, ceased emitting just after a new series of bombardments, whose echoes were heard in the center of Baghdad by journalists of AFP. On the other hand, the emissions of Iraqi satellite television continue...

EXCERPT - Washington -- U.S. intelligence officials are confident that a cruise missile attack at dawn Thursday killed several members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle, perhaps including one of his sons, but that Hussein himself is still alive, according to intelligence sources. They said that they believe Hussein's son Qusai, who was recently placed in charge of the defense of the Baghdad and Tikrit region, as well as one of Hussein's most trusted lieutenants, Izzat Ibrahim, may have been among those killed when cruise missiles hit a residential compound in the opening salvo of the war. Officials told The Associated...

As it became known today in the morning, the president of Iraq Saddam Hussain has ordered to put senior son Udai under domestic arrest. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper "Al Kabas", Hussain was compelled to go on such step after has learned(found out) that his(its) successor is going to leave(abandon) Iraq. We shall remind, yesterday Udai has made with the official statement that Bagdad categorically refuses to consider(examine) the showed(presented) the US ultimatum. As senior son of Saddam, members of his(its) family has informed yesterday under any pretext are not going to leave(abandon) Iraq. Besides Udai has offered to Bush...

Arbil, Iraq Press, April 15 – President Saddam Hussein has ordered his elder son to unarm in his presence. The order was relayed to the 37-year-old Udai by Saddam’s powerful secretary, Abed hameed Mahmoud two weeks ago. The decision, insiders say, has angered Udai. Saddam is perhaps among the world’s most security conscious leaders but it is the first time he openly suspects one of his own sons. Though married to three wives with plenty of children, Saddam heavily relies on Udai and Quasai, his sons from his first marriage with Sajida Talfah, a cousin. The insiders say relations between...