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Cuban cigar-smoking Uday, with brother Qusay, and the bombed out remains of his Baghdad villa. Photos: AFP His personal zoo has lions, cheetahs and a bear. His storehouse has $1.65 million of fine wines, liquors and heroin. His house has Cuban cigars, cases of champagne and downloaded pictures of prostitutes. While most Iraqis bent under the brunt of UN sanctions that drove their country into poverty, Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday lived a life of fast cars, expensive liquor and easy women, a tour through his bombed Baghdad house showed. The walls of a gym were plastered with photographs...

<p>BAGHDAD — His personal zoo has lions, cheetahs and a bear. His storehouse has $1 million in fine wines, liquor and heroin. His house has Cuban cigars, cases of champagne and downloaded pictures of prostitutes.</p> <p>While most Iraqis suffered under the U.N. sanctions that drove their country into poverty, Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Uday, lived a life of fast cars, expensive liquor and easy women, a tour yesterday through his bombed house showed.</p>

BAGHDAD - Photographs of President Bush's twin daughters were found - and removed - from a gym belonging to Saddam Hussein's oldest son, Army officials said yesterday. The 21-year-old twins were "dressed up very nice in evening clothes," said Army Capt. Ed Ballanco, of Montville, N.J. The pictures were on the walls of the facility belonging to Uday Hussein in a section of the main presidential compound. Other pictures posted on the wall and believed downloaded from the Internet were "the biggest collection of naked women I'd ever seen," Ballanco said. "It looked like something at the Playboy Mansion." He...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Odai Hussein, appeared Tuesday to have won a seat in parliament, and may end up becoming its speaker, a sign that he's the Iraqi president's heir apparent.</p> <p>In Iraq's first parliamentary election since 1996, Odai Hussein on Monday secured 99.9 percent in the Baghdad districts, according to the state-run weekly Al-Ittihad.</p>

NEW YORK: “It is difficult being in the family of Hussein. People want to kill us," Uday, son of Saddam Hussein, wrote to an uncle in 1990 in a letter which a weekly says was found in Uday's palace in Baghdad. In a 1990 letter Uday says that his father plans to create a greater Iraq that includes Kuwait, Palestine and Arabstan, a region of Iran historically controlled by Baghdad. The note says Saddam Hussein is beginning with the easiest-Kuwait, Time magazine said on Monday. The palace, in the Baghdad suburb of Karada, it said, was not Uday's main residence...

<p>April 14, 2003 -- Saddam Hussein's a murderous tyrant that not even a maniacal son could love.</p> <p>Despite showering his oversexed son Uday with palaces, yachts, Lamborghinis and pet lions, the Butcher of Baghdad was apparently unable to buy his "heart toward my father, not any love or kindness," Uday wrote in a 1990 letter to an uncle, Time magazine reports this week.</p>

Inside the Secret World Snapshots and papers found in a lavish, looted safe house paint a vivid picture of Saddam's unhappy eldest son Uday By SIMON ROBINSON BAGHDAD Infantrywoman Felicia Harris poses for a picture on the four poster bed at the palace of Uday Hussein Sunday, Apr. 13, 2003 It's not easy being the freeloading, oversexed, overlooked scion of an Iraqi dictator. Consider Uday Hussein, 39, who in 1990 wrote to an uncle, "It is difficult being in the family of Hussein. People want to kill us." That quite possibly includes the people who looted his lavish three-story riverside...

Iraq has been saved from a cruel dictator far worse than Saddam Hussein, says the former body double of Uday Hussein, Saddam's eldest son and heir. Latif Yahia had been a school classmate of the dictator's son and looked like a twin brother. He thought he'd been forgotten, but a few years later Yahia, an Iraqi officer serving in the Iran-Iraq war, was suddenly summoned home to Uday's palace in Baghdad. In strode Uday Saddam Hussein. "I want you to be me," the president's son declared, "Everywhere, always. You will be my fidai, my double. You will be the son...

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...

Pink chiffon sanctum for playboy son's seduction of defenceless 'conquests' THE women of the US forces were not impressed. But other women, brought into this same place, once had no choice but to feign admiration for the surroundings. This was one of the innermost sanctums of the Saddam regime - a pink chiffon hideaway where the dictator's playboy son Uday appears to have entertained defenceless sexual "conquests". Two minutes south along the Tigris from Saddam's giant Republican Palace, the sight of Arabian nights minarets, heart-shaped pillows and a swimming pool with waterside bar are the first indications that this is...

ATLANTA — Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff. For example, in the mid-1990's one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he was beaten and subjected to electroshock torture in the basement of a secret police headquarters because he...

April 06, 2003 Soldiers find secret recipe at son of Saddam's bombed estate By Sean D. Naylor Times staff writer 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. 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...

<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>

Heavy artillery fire in east Baghdad BAGHDAD, April 6 (Reuters) - Heavy artillery fire hit the residential area of Zayouneh in east Baghdad on Sunday, near to an Iraqi Olympic Committee building of President Saddam Hussein's son Uday, a Reuters witness said. Correspondent Samia Nakhoul said the sound of artillery and anti-aircraft fire could be heard from the area for several minutes. "It sounds like quite a big battle," she said. The Zayouneh area is largely residential but Iraqi artillery batteries are believed to be stationed there. It also houses the homes of some Iraqi officers. Earlier on Sunday reporters...

Uday 'was bright and jovial pupil' NEW YORK: Saddam Hussein's son Uday speaks English with a Yorkshire accent, and was a happy young student, his British former teacher told Newsweek magazine. "But teacher Dinah Bentley, from Yorkshire in northern England, remembers a very different Uday. Back in the early 70s, while married to a Kurd, she taught English to the 11-year-old at a private school in Baghdad." The magazine says that as Saddam, then second in command, "was already a powerful figure" at the time, "Uday arrived at school with bodyguards ... but she recalls a normal child who was...

We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of Iraq. A man cuddles the body of his in-fant daughter; her blood drenches them. A woman in black pursues a tank, her arms outstretched; all seven in her family are dead. An American Marine murders a woman because she happens to be standing next to a man in a uniform. "I'm sorry,'' he says, "but the chick got in the way.'' Covering this in a shroud of respectability has not been easy for George Bush and Tony Blair. Millions now know too much; the crime is all too evident. Tam...

Bribes art last line of defence MEMBERS of the militia headed by Saddam Hussein’s psychopathic son Uday and assigned to some of the Iraqi forces’ most ruthless operations have been promised a cash bonus equivalent to four months’ wages for each coalition soldier they kill. The Fedayeen Saddam have been told to expect 250,000 dinars (about £50) for shooting a soldier dead and 500,000 dinars for taking one alive. The men are promised 750,000 dinars for destroying anything from a four-wheel-drive vehicle to a tank, and 1m dinars for bringing down a plane or helicopter. The figures emerged last week...

Q- In the 1990's, you were a pop star in Iraq, and you were known as Uday Hussein's favorite performer. How did you get involved with Saddam's oldest son, who is known for his violence, womanizing and erratic moods? I'd been singing for a while. I was pretty famous. When I was in the Iraqi Army in 1991, I was known through a lot of tapes of mine that had been circulating. When Uday heard them, he sent his security officer to bring me over to his home. I was happy that the president's son wanted to have me perform....