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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...

Following the Presidents message to the world last evening, one of the Major Media's Geriatric Three(in his mid to late 60's, along with The old media guard of Rather and Jennings),Tom refered to the President as delivering an ulimatum to Hussein and his "kids". Still rocked by the 2002 Presidential Election outcome when the Network Three lost to GWB and not so fresh from private limosine service to Black Rock, Tom quickly realised his very poor choice of words (obviously a hold over from the Clinton "for the children"/"for the kids" era now in tatters). He quickly reminded the primetime...

SADDAM'S sons, Qusay and Uday, and deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz are the three key members of the dictator's inner circle. Younger son, Qusay, is the only figure he truly trusts. The methodical, quietly ruthless Qusay has proved himself both able and reliable. Saddam has responded by making him de facto crown prince. In charge of Iraq's security and intelligence apparatus, Qusay chairs the committee that oversees all eight intelligence agencies, whose overlapping remits have been crafted to create competition and tension. For the past 10 years, he has headed the Special Security Organisation and the Special Republican Guard. If...

Attempt on life of Saddams eldest son Uday at al-Jadayira Boating Club on the Tigris River.There with a party he has thought to have escaped with injuries from this second known assassination attempts, with three of his bodyguards killed.

A SENIOR Baghdad official who feared for his life after helping to hide Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons was executed after he tried to flee the country, Iraqi sources revealed last week. Khalis Muhsin al-Tikriti, 35, had been working in the scientific department of the president’s office under the authority of the Special Security Organisation (SSO), headed by Qusay Hussein, Saddam’s younger son and political heir. Al-Tikriti, an engineer, had supervised an operation to bury a significant quantity of Saddam’s chemical weapons before United Nations weapons inspectors arrived last November. Some weapons were buried near the river Tigris in the Baji...

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Dr. Uday Saddam Hussein to the extraordinary session of the National Assembly, for discussing the UN Security Council Resolution (1441) In the name of Allah the most Omnipotent, the most compassionate My comrades and brothers members of the National Assembly.. Iraq, or more correctly the Arab Nation, is passing through a critical historical circumstances for any results or reflections that will be resulted from these circumstances, whether negative or positive, will have direct effects, not mere reflections, on Arab countries in general, especially Saudi Arabia, then Syria, and Jordan in the third place, if not the first, which will equal...

Report: Iraq's Olympic chief turned on top aide -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Tom Farrey ESPN.com As the longtime deputy chairman of the Iraqi National Olympic Committee, Aseel Tabra was known by former athletes as the trusted lieutenant to whom Uday Hussein turned to carry out many of his orders, even when those directives involved the imprisonment and torture of athletes and coaches. To Uday, apparently, loyalty only counts for so much. Tabra, whom the International Olympic Committee will likely want to speak to in its ethics probe, has been sent recently to one of Iraq's toughest prisons, according to the Iraq Press,...

Saddam Hussein's elder son, Uday, has sent a number of his senior aides in the notorious al-Radhwaniaya detention center. The arrests were made following revelations of large-scale embezzlement and fraud in the National Olympic Committee which Uday heads. Al-Radhwaniya is one of Iraq's most horrific detention centers. Previously, there were reports that the authorities were planning to dismantle the camp as part of a general amnesty Saddam issued last year. But the idea was shelved and the jail is said again to be full of the regime's opponents. Informed sources told Iraq Press that among those Uday dispatched to al-Radhwaniya...

Protesters With Bloody Hands Historically, peace demands have led to more killing. The signs, ranging from the offensive ("Bush and Blair Wanted for Murder") to the wacky ("Make Tea Not War"), have no doubt been consigned to the proper recycling bins. But the corrosive effect of the worldwide antiwar rallies of Feb. 15 lingers. Saddam Hussein's mouthpiece, the newspaper Babel, which is run by his son, Uday, has praised the demonstrators for inflicting "humiliating international isolation" on Britain and the United States and for ushering in "a new chapter in the global balance of power." Seeing that his enemies are...

BAGHDAD, Jan 24 (Reuters) - President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday has warned the United States of huge losses and a calamity worse than the September 11 attacks on Washington if it goes ahead with plans to invade Iraq. "It is better for them (the Americans) to keep themselves away from us," Uday was quoted as saying on Thursday night by al-Shabab (Youth) television which he owns. "Because if they come, September 11 which they are crying over and see as a big thing will be a real picnic for them, God willing," Uday said, referring to suicide hijacker attacks...

In the history of the world, an expanse that covers Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler and other despots both past and present, there is no shortage of absolute rulers whose human rights records compare with that of today's designated pariah, Saddam Hussein. Since being charged with overseeing the Iraqi National Olympic Committee in 1984, Uday Hussein allegedly has made sport of imprisoning, torturing and murdering athletes. There may never have been a sports official, though, as brutal as his son, Uday. As president of the Iraqi National Olympic Committee, Uday allegedly tortures athletes for losing games. He sticks them in...

The London-based "Sunday Times" reported on 15 December that Swiss authorities allowed Barzan Tikriti to return to Iraq in October despite a request by the London-based human rights group Indict that he be prosecuted for war crimes. Tikriti is the half-brother of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; his daughter is married to Saddam's son, Uday. Tikriti is a former Iraqi ambassador to Switzerland who previously served as director-general of the Iraqi Mukhabarat intelligence agency. An Indict dossier presented evidence to Swiss authorities 15 months ago that claimed that Tikriti "had pulled out fingernails, thrown boiling water over prisoners, beaten them with...

Cairo - Perhaps it was the report picked up from Western media claiming that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had reached a secret deal with Libya to provide sanctuary for his family and inner circle in exchange for several billion dollars. Or maybe it was the repeated criticism of fellow Arab leaders, whom Hussein has been trying to win over in his effort to head off a U.S. attack. Whatever the reason, the Iraqi government was not saying yesterday why it had banned a newspaper owned by Hussein's eldest son, Uday, from publishing for a month. The tabloid, Babel, is widely...

Is there a place on the web where it logs all of the abuses of Saddam's son Uday? How is he compared to Qusay?? I have heard there are many stories on the web, but I can't find them.

A LONDON-BASED human rights organisation will file a complaint this week with the International Olympic Committee against Saddam Hussein’s elder son Uday, saying he has punished some of Iraq’s top sportsmen with beatings, harassment and electric shock torture. It claims he once made a group of athletes crawl on newly poured asphalt while they were hit with a cable. Among the allegations is a charge that in the basement of Iraq’s lavish Olympic committee headquarters in Baghdad, Uday ran a 30-cell prison for sportsmen and others who had offended him. He allegedly used its warehouses for smuggling in contravention of...

Brit Hume just reported on Fox that Uday Hussein, Saddam's son, has an email account at Yahoo. It's udaysaddamhussein@yahoo.com. His Profile doesn't have much stuff yet, though. This email address was printed on some online Iraqi newspaper at the end of a column written by Uday...

Saddam Hussein's elder son Uday has called on the Iraqi parliament to back the return of United Nations weapons inspectors. "We should, as a national assembly, accept the UN resolution which is under debate in these sessions," he said in a written message as a heated parliamentary debate on the issue entered its second day. Correspondents believe that the deputies may take a vote on Tuesday, ahead of the UN's Friday deadline for Baghdad to comply with the resolution or face possible military action. On Monday parliamentarians condemned the resolution, and the parliament's foreign relations committee recommended that it be...

Recent intelligence information revealing dramatic progress in Iraq's nuclear- weapons program has given a new urgency to U.S. and British efforts to build international support for war with Iraq, according to Iraqi opposition leaders interviewed by Insight in London. The information, from recent defectors and other sources working with the broad-based Iraqi National Congress (INC), indicates that Baghdad has made "a recent breakthrough" in production of the fissile material needed to produce the bomb. It was buttressed on Sept. 24 when the British government released an "unprecedented" white paper based in part on classified intelligence information on Iraq's weapons of...

After surviving torture, another high-level defector has escaped Iraq. In this exclusive report, he details Saddam's progress toward truly frightening capabilities: "dirty" bombs that spew radioactivity, mobile bio-weapons facilities, and a new long-range ballistic missileBy David Rose January 2000: a chilly afternoon in Baghdad. At the downtown headquarters of Iraq’s Military Industrial Commission, the body responsible for arms development and purchase, its then chairman, General Amer al-Saadi, gathered 13 government officials around the boardroom table: scientists, soldiers, spies. More than a year had passed since the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, expelled the inspectors from the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM),...