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Iraqi informer's family is marked for death Nawaf al-Zaidan earned $30m by leading the US to Saddam's sons. Now local tribes have sworn revenge Rory McCarthy in Mosul Saturday January 24, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The spot where Nawaf al-Zaidan's mansion once stood is now empty. Bulldozers flattened the building, leaving a neat square of red earth, as if to erase the memory of what happened here six months ago. Scrawled nearby in red paint are the words: "Houses and land for sale." On July 22 last year, Mr Zaidan left his home in the al-Bareed suburb of the northern...

When the fourth race at the Baghdad Equestrian Club got underway Friday, No. 1, a big-boned gray named Fawal, was heavily favored to win. But No. 6, the muscular, chocolate-colored Burhana, pulled ahead at the final turn, maintained his lead and finished first by a neck. The all-male crowd in the stands, many of them chronic gamblers and most of them scruffy, booed and grumbled in disappointment as they watched the instant replay. But for once, few doubted that the contest had been fair, and neither Fawal's jockey nor his trainer had to fear being jailed and beaten for the...

Tales of torture Raed Ahmed, the Iraqi champion in the 99-kilogram weight category from 1984 to 1996, defected to the United States while competing at the Atlanta Olympic Games. He now lives in the U.S. with his wife, whom he later smuggled out of Iraq by paying for an Iraqi passport that allowed her to travel to Jordan using a different name. Ahmed is among several former Iraqi athletes who say they were tortured under orders by Iraqi National Olympic Committee chief Uday Hussein. Three, including Ahmed, agreed to tell their own tales of abuse for ESPN.com: Sharar Haydar:...

The very last foreign dignitary who had seen Uday Hussein alive was Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Furthermore, on this last flight out of Baghdad were: the Muftiate of Russia headed by Talgat Tajuddin, Father Feofan, Bishop of Magadan and Sinegorsk, the President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the Russian Labor Party Viktor Anpilov, Lieutenant General Mikhail Filin, and the Chairman of the Islamic Committee, Geidar Jemal. Both characters are well-known, but one isn't. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is the dictator of Kalmykia, a small Russian Republic on the north shore of the Caspian Sea. In 1995, the chess world was astonished when...

Officer: Saddam trained al-Qaida pre-9-11Iraqi paper says Fedayeen supervised hijack drills in summer 2001 Saddam Hussein ordered the training of al-Qaida members two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to an independent Iraqi weekly. The Fedayeen, under the command of Saddam's late son Uday, directly supervised 100 al-Qaida fighters who were split into two groups, reported Al-Yawm Al-Aakher, citing an Iraqi officer identified by the initial L. One group went to Al-Nahrawan and the second to Salman Pak, near Baghdad, where they were trained to hijack airplanes, the officer said in an article translated by the Washington,...

Rumsfeld flies over site where Saddam sons killed MOSUL, Iraq, Sept 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld got a bird's eye view from a helicopter on Friday of the site where Saddam Hussein's sons were killed in northern Iraq. On a visit to troops from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in the northern city of Mosul, Rumsfeld was given an aerial tour which included the house where Uday and Qusay Hussein were cornered and killed by U.S. soldiers in July. Their killing was the biggest success so far for U.S. troops hunting Saddam and his top officials. Rumsfeld...

Now that Uday & Qusay have been eliminated, a lot of the lesser-known family members are coming to the attention of American authorities. Among the brothers: Sooflay ..................the restauranteur Guday................... the half-Australian brother Huray.................... the sports fanatic Kuntay & Kintay.....the twins from the African mother Sayhay....................the baseball player Ojay........................the stalker / murderer Gulay......................the singer / entertainer Ebay.......................the internet czar Biliray......................the country music star Ecksray...................the radiologist Puray.......................the blender factory owner Regay......................the half-Jamaican brother Tupay......................the one with bad hair: Among the sisters: Lattay........................the coffee shop owner Bufay.........................the 300 pound sister Dushay......................the clean sister Phayray.....................the zoo worker in the gorilla house: Sapheway..................the grocery...

BAGHDAD When Ahmed al-Samarrai returned to the sports club where he once coached the Iraqi national basketball team, he did not recognize it. The gym had been demolished. The grass on the soccer field was uncut, and some of the sandstone buildings were starting to crumble. That was the least of it. Virtually every athlete at the club has physical or mental scars inflicted by deposed President Saddam Hussein's older son, Uday, who took control of Iraq's Olympic Committee in 1984 and began a terrifying campaign of torture and humiliation. Many fled the country, including Samarrai. "The fields you can...

The four-storey house in Mosul where Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, made their last stand has been demolished to prevent it being made into a shrine by Iraqis nostalgic for their father's rule. But before the bulldozers moved in, the site was picked over by American souvenir hunters.Four armed CIA men in plain clothes were prowling through the rubble in Mosul's Chalalat Street last week. One, a bald man with an automatic rifle slung over his shoulders who said he was from Colorado, admitted he was collecting souvenirs for himself and his colleagues. He and other armed Americans were...

This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end. Uday Hussein, April 4, as reported in the Sunday Telegraph Here's what's so astonishing about Uday's comment: That only on April 4 two weeks after America's land invasion of Iraq had begun and five days before the taking of Baghdad did it dawn on Saddam's eldest son that this time, just maybe, the Americans were serious. That this time, Kofi Annan would not intervene, as he had in 1998, to save his father's regime; that this time, Bush would not pull...

NewsMax has obtained a photo straight from Iraq - and the battle between U.S. soldiers and Saddam's now-deceased offspring. Click the link below to see a photo of U.S. soldiers, in the middle of their firefight with Uday and Qusay. See the missile in flight, fired from a Humvee in the street. Notice the spent shell casings on the ground ... there are not that many; there would have been more had we used all our firepower on the murderous scum, proving the fact that we gave them a chance, and when they didn't surrender ... well, they started the...

http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20030803082747263 Shots of Uday tormenting young soldiers Sunday, August 03 2003 @ 08:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time Contributed by: Admin Views: 585 The video pictures of Uday while he was beating the Iraqi youths with his whip cruilessly in presence of tens of viewers in Baghdad. Those shots will shock you... The date of torture, actual reason, identifies of the victims or locationare unknown. Maybe they were only unsuccessul young officers. Hovewer, there is a visible reality... Uday Hussein, courageing to be son of the dictator in the country, cruelessly was bastinadoing Iraqis with a assist of an executioner. And...

Coulter and Estrich up on H&C. Estrich looks like he was embalmed by the same guys that formaldehyded Uday and Qusai!!

The graves tell the story of the fall of the house of Hussein. Just off Tikrit's main street, Saddam built a gaudy mausoleum in dictator kitsch style, to give the appearance of a bond with the father who abandoned him as a child. And at the cemetery in nearby Owja, the Hussein family's tribal homeland, the impoverished mother who raised Saddam is remembered in a building whose functional architecture would suit the laundry block at an Australian country hospital. But when the Al Bunaser tribe gathered on Saturday for the burial of Saddam's sons, killed in a gun battle with...

<p>UDAY: "I think the end is near" because "this time I think the Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."</p> <p>Saddam Hussein's son Uday... killed last week by coalition forces... apparently knew months ago that his demise was imminent. The London Telegraph says that three days before the fall of Baghdad on April 9, Uday told the director of Iraqi television, "I think the end is near" because "this time I think the Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."</p>

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has approved the payment of $30 million in reward money to the tipster who supplied the critical information that led U.S. troops to the hideout of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s two sons, slain two weeks ago, a U.S. official said Thursday. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) decided to award the tipster $15 million each for information that led authorities to Odai and Qusai's hideout — a total of $30 million, the largest award ever made under the reward program. The brothers were killed by TOW missiles fired into the...

Found this on Ebay. No I am not trying to sell it.

CIA analysis tape 'highly likely' Saddam voice By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The CIA has determined that a tape broadcast this week purporting to be Saddam Hussein commenting on the deaths of his two sons was almost certainly authentic, a CIA official said on Wednesday. "We've determined it is highly likely to be him," the official told Reuters. On the audio tape, aired by Dubai-based Al Arabiya television on Tuesday, the ousted Iraqi leader said his sons Uday and Qusay who were killed by U.S. forces last week died as martyrs, and he vowed America would be...

Another tape-recorded message from Saddam Hussein surfaced this week, making it the third audiotape he has released in the past month. If we're really serious about finding this guy, maybe we should start searching Iraq's recording studios. On the tape, Hussein acknowledged the death of his sons Uday and Qusay Hussein and called their deaths "good news" – which is more than the Democrats have said. He thanked God for his sons' "martyrdom." Indeed, Hussein said that even if he had 100 other children, he "would offer them the same path." Apparently the alluring path of martyrdom is not one...

Another tape-recorded message from Saddam Hussein surfaced this week, making it the third audiotape he has released in the past month. If we're really serious about finding this guy, maybe we should start searching Iraq's recording studios. On the tape, Hussein acknowledged the death of his sons Uday and Qusay Hussein and called their deaths "good news" – which is more than the Democrats have said. He thanked God for his sons' "martyrdom." Indeed, Hussein said that even if he had 100 other children, he "would offer them the same path." Apparently the alluring path of martyrdom is not one...