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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Two lions and a lioness and her six cubs housed in a Baghdad zoo owned by Saddam Hussein's son Uday will be given their freedom in reserves in South Africa, the SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary said. Louise Joubert, the founder of the sanctuary, based in northeastern Limpopo province, told the SAPA news agency that SanWild had managed to secure the release of the lions from the zoo. The lioness and cubs will be settled in the Ngome Community Reserve in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province and the two male lions will go to the SanWild sanctuary, she said. "The lioness...

Uday Hussein's lions to be taken back to Africa By Andrew Quinn JOHANNESBURG, May 23 (Reuters) - Lions once kept in a private zoo by the son of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will be moved out of Baghdad to start a new life in the South African bush, animal welfare groups said on Friday. The animals, a lioness and her six cubs and two year-old lions, will be relocated to two different South African game reserves in the hope they will form new prides. "Lions never lose their instinct to hunt. But they have to get fit first," said...

The face of Uday Hussein is shown on the face of an ace of hearts card, one of the 55 distributed by U.S. Central Command.   Report: Saddam and Uday alive   Wall Street Journal cites 3rd-party source; U.S. officials skeptical   NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES   May 23 —  Saddam Hussein’s eldest son, Uday, is alive and considering surrendering to U.S. forces, according to a report in Friday’s Wall Street Journal. The paper cited a third-party source who also said Saddam is alive, although in questionable mental health.        THE REPORT said Uday is hiding...

Saddam Hussein and his son Uday are alive and hiding in a Baghdad suburb, and Uday is considering surrendering to U.S. forces, reports the Wall Street Journal. Citing an unnamed third party familiar with the surrender discussions, the Journal said the U.S. is taking a tough negotiating posture because officials are confident Uday eventually will be found and captured. The paper says Uday wants to know what the charges against him would be, the process for interrogation and what the conditions of his incarceration would be. The Journal reported U.S. officials in Washington had no comment. Fox News reports military...

According to Fox News WSJ says Uday is set to surrender!

Three Getaway TrucksBy William SafireNew York Times | May 9, 2003 The night after President Bush gave him 48 hours to surrender, Saddam Hussein sent his son Qusay to the vault of Iraq's Central Bank to make a modest withdrawal for the family's departure. It took three tractor-trailers to haul away nearly a billion dollars in cash — all in $100 U.S. greenbacks — plus $100 million worth of euros. Thus did Saddam & Sons bring off the grandest larceny in bank history.Reading Dexter Filkins's scoop in The Times, my mind harks back to a question asked of Frank Sinatra...

Iraqi footballer tells of torture under Saddam By Huda Majeed Saleh BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) - Losing a football game could usually cost a championship or maybe a manager's job. It also shatters the dreams of supporters. But in Saddam Hussein's Iraq it cost much more. Run by Uday, the eldest son of the man who ruled Iraq for 24 years with an iron fist until he was deposed in a U.S.-led war last month, losing on the pitch meant imprisonment, beatings and sometimes starvation. "We used to play under great psychological pressure because losing the match meant punishment," Samir...

EMMANUEL BABA can still muster a smile when he thinks back to the day in 1984 when he first met Uday Hussein, the man who destroyed his life and turned football from a popular sport into the regime’s favourite sadistic hobby. Surrounded by friends and fans, Iraq’s most famous player turned manager has survived his ordeal. But, at 69, he admits he can never recover what Saddam’s eldest son took from him. The regime forced his wife into exile, drove out his son and turned his lifelong passion for football into a nightmare in which he and his players were...

ALLIED troops and Kuwaiti zoo-keepers came to the rescue yesterday of six young lions and two cheetahs languishing in the private zoo of Saddam Hussein’s eldest son, Uday. Under the watch of a dozen armed soldiers, the animals were coaxed into cages with lumps of raw meat. They were then taken by military truck from the fenced compound in Uday’s section of his father’s Baghdad palace to a new home in the city’s main zoo. Uday, known for his love of fierce animals, fast cars and beautiful women, owned several lions, tigers and cheetahs, some of them gifts from friendly...

US soldiers save Uday's lions at Baghdad palace BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops came to the rescue Friday of six young lions and two cheetahs languishing uncared for in the private zoo of Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Uday. Under the watch of a dozen armed soldiers, the animals were coaxed into cages with lumps of raw meat and taken by military truck from the fenced compound in Uday's section of his father's Baghdad palace to a new home in the city's main zoo. Uday, known for his love of fierce animals, fast cars and beautiful women, has owned several...

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6323188%255E25777,00.html  Uday's torture device found 22apr03UDAY, Saddam Hussein's feared elder son, and president of the Iraq National Olympic Committee, tortured footballers who played below par, Time magazine reports in its latest issue. Players had their feet scalded and toenails ripped off for failing to win and allegations of torture were investigated by the international football federation FIFA. However Time says the investigations failed because no player would dare admit to suffering such abuse for fear of even worse. Time however says it has found what may be the first tangible evidence pointing to torture in Uday's own backyard, the administrative compound...

The Saddam Files In the aftermath of Saddam's overthrow it can now be revealed for the first time detailed information as to the horrifically sadistic gruesome rule of the Ba'athist Regime. So cruel and sadistic was their behavior it would make the Marque De Sade recoil in ghoulish horror and revulsion. So vile and villainous was the extent in which they terrorized the local population that it makes "Mos Eisley" seem like a galactic backwater Disneyland by comparison.

Diaries could lead to Saddam's Secret BackersTHE secrets of Saddam Hussein's overseas business networks have been uncovered in the records of his eldest son, Uday, whose diary also reveals that he spied on his father. British intelligence got its hands on some of Uday's prolific collection of records before looters could make off with them. They are hopeful that the diaries will identify businessmen in Britain who helped to keep the regime in Baghdad afloat. A vain and temperamental figure, Uday insisted that every order he gave should be meticulously recorded in his office diaries, whether it be the Hollywood...

No profile of Uday Hussein, the psychotic elder son of Iraq's deposed dictator, is complete without a mention of his sadistic reign as Iraq's sports czar. In his capacity as head of Iraq's Olympic committee and also of its soccer federation, he is known to have ordered the torture of athletes who performed below his expectations. A bad day on the field for a player on the national soccer squad could result in savage retribution: Players had their feet scalded and toenails ripped off for failing to win tournaments. Allegations of torture had even resulted in investigations by international sports...

THE secrets of Saddam Hussein’s overseas business networks have been uncovered in the records of his eldest son, Uday, whose diary also reveals that he spied on his father. British Intelligence got its hands on some of Uday’s prolific collection of records before looters could make off with them. They are hopeful that the diaries will identify businessmen in Britain who helped to keep the regime in Baghdad afloat. A vain and temperamental figure, Uday insisted that every order he gave should be meticulously recorded in his office diaries, whether it be the Hollywood videos that he wanted to watch...

HER dusty file was one of hundreds of thousands of documents stacked in a house in a wealthy neighbourhood of Baghdad. Asma Rasheed married a pilot, lived comfortably in the presidential compound of Saddam Hussein and directed a microbiology programme that was not supposed to exist. Rasheed’s light blue folder has emerged from a huge archive seized by forces loyal to Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, which opposed Saddam. The archive — a dark who’s who of Iraq — reveals the tiniest details of blandishments and humiliations by a paranoid regime that shared the Nazis’ obsession...

Uday's passions: his mom, the Net and torture April 18 2003 at 05:09PM Baghdad - Uday, Saddam Hussein's feared elder son, had several hobbies: women, cars, the Internet, jewellery, weapons, the Shi'ite branch of Islam, alcohol and especially torture. "He would spend much of his time searching NGO websites for information on the most sophisticated forms of torture, including in Latin America, and when he couldn't read the Spanish, he would print out the pictures," one of his former aides said. He attended torture sessions in a prison 50km south of Baghdad run by the Fedayeen paramilitary corps he headed,...

A gold-plated gun given to one of Saddam Hussein's henchmen has been seized at Heathrow Airport, it was reported. The Kalashnikov AK47 found yesterday was similar to the one uncovered at Uday Hussein's palace in Baghdad last week, according to a newspaper report. The loaded machine gun was discovered along with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, six bayonets and a sniper rifle in packages marked as computer equipment, the newspaper claimed. A spokesman for Customs and Excise said: "A quantity of arms was found at Heathrow and investigations are ongoing." No further details were given. The newspaper said the arms are...

Senior Iraqi officers have scattered across the Middle East after fleeing Baghdad as the assault on the city began, according to some senior Iraqis in London who have kept close links with key figures within the country. All of them have false passports and could try to later hide in countries like Pakistan or Malaysia or Indonesia, said Ali Haitham Rashid Wihaib, who was Saddam Hussain's former head of protocol. He added that the Syrian authorities were keeping some of their "embarrassing guests" including generals and ministers hidden because of the US pressure. He, claimed in a daily, that Saddam...

FOR three days, American tanks have been shelling a military intelligence building in the posh Al-Khathamia area in west Baghdad. The dozen or so tanks are not here to pound intransigent fighters but to break down concrete beams and steel, to reach bunkers deep underground at the Al-Istikhbarat Al-'Askariya facility. The Marines found 123 prisoners, including five women, barely alive in an underground warren of cells and torture chambers. Being trapped underground probably kept them safe from the bombing of Baghdad by the coalition. Severely emaciated, some had survived by eating the scabs off their sores. All the men had...