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Closure on nuance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 30, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Universal Press Syndicate 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,...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- When Ahmed al Rahdi was the captain of Iraq's national soccer team, Uday Hussein ran all the sports programs.</p> <p>Al Rahdi says he was given gifts and money when the team won -- and tortured and jailed whenever they played poorly.</p>

The Associated Press TIKRIT, Iraq July 30 — Skeptical Iraqis began to accept that Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were dead after a new audiotape attributed to the fallen dictator acknowledged his sons had become martyrs in the fight against American occupation.During a patrol in Tikrit early Wednesday, U.S. forces came across a black flag strung up in front of a local government building. The writing mourned the passing of Odai and Qusai. After asking his translator to read the gold and white lettering to him, U.S. Lt. Col. Steve Russell, whose 4th Infantry Division, 1st Battalion is...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - Skeptical Iraqis began to accept that Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were dead after a new audiotape attributed to the fallen dictator acknowledged his sons had become martyrs in the fight against American occupation. During a patrol in Tikrit early Wednesday, U.S. forces came across a black flag strung up in front of a local government building. The writing mourned the passing of Odai and Qusai. After asking his translator to read the gold and white lettering to him, U.S. Lt. Col. Steve Russell, whose 4th Infantry Division, 1st Battalion is leading the raids in...

<p>MOSUL, Iraq — All day, glaziers from Sheik Nawaf al-Zaydan Muhhmad's contracting firm had been working on the windows of their employer's ornate, three-story villa on the boulevard of Al Falaha in Mosul.</p> <p>Mukhlis Jubori, Mr. al-Zaydan's next-door neighbor and closest friend, was curious. The windows did not need replacing and glass has been scarce since the war. Where was Mr. al-Zaydan, he wondered? He had not seen him for almost three weeks.</p>

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - An audio tape purportedly from former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) aired on an Arab television station Tuesday vowed to defeat the United States to avenge the deaths of his two sons by U.S. forces. "I mourn to you the deaths of Uday and Qusay and those who struggled with them. You are the honor of this nation. America will be defeated," said the voice on the tape, broadcast by Dubai-based al Arabiya. "They ... died martyrs in the name of jihad (holy war)," the voice said. The speech was rambling, breaking off...

Just breaking ....no word on the tapes content other than he "mourns" his sons.....waiting for the tape to be played now..

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1587 Just be warned that some of the images may be grapic and or offensive.

Saddam Hussein's oldest son, Uday, fed his love rivals to caged lions, according to reports. Sadistic Uday, who was gunned down in a shoot-out with American troops last week, employed executioners to help carry out gruesome killings at his whim. And his chief executioner has now told how he helped drag two 19-year-old students into a cage at Uday's farm to be devoured by the beasts. The 36-year-old executioner, who has used the false name of Abu Ahmad, told The Sunday Times: "I saw the head of the first student literally come off his body with the first bite." Ahmad...

NBC’s Richard Engel offered a more sweeping scolding than did other reporters of the U.S. for laying out for video cameras the bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein. He called the decision “controversial” and insisted “all of this has been quite offensive to Islamic sensibilities here. Muslims are generally buried in a simple white shroud without any embalming process at all.” On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw asked Engel in Baghdad: “Richard, as you well know, there’s fresh video tonight as well of the bodies of Saddam’s two sons after they were cleaned up by Army morticians. We want...

Uday and Qusay killed to keep them silent on lack of WMD? Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift suggested on the McLaughlin Group over the weekend that the in killing Uday and Qusay Hussein, “two intelligence assets who could potentially lead us to the weapons of mass destruction,” the Bush administration “surrendered a major opportunity to uncover” those weapons “unless,” she added nefariously, “they don’t believe those weapons are there.” Later, she equated President Bush’s State of the Union line about Iraq “seeking” uranium in Africa with the tape erasure in the Nixon White House: “The 16 words are taking on the aura...

U.S. soldiers found a stash of cash and a briefcase of goodies in the mansion where Odai and Qusai Hussein were killed last week. The brothers had $100 million in U.S. dollars and Iraqi dinars, according to a report published Sunday. Based on the contents of a briefcase belonging to Odai, Saddam Hussein's elder son seemed to be preparing more for a night out than a fight. It contained pain-killers, cologne, Viagra, unopened packages of men's underwear, dress shirts, a silk tie and a condom, Newsweek reported. They also had two women's purses. Sunday, U.S. forces focused their hunt for...

A man who worked as Uday Hussein's chief executioner has revealed how Saddam's son once ordered him to seize, and then help drag, two 19-year-old students into a cage to be devoured by lions. ''I saw the head of the first student literally come off his body with the first bite,'' he told the London Times. He says he was forced to watch the animals devour the young students. ''By the time they were finished there was little left but for the bones and bits and pieces of unwanted flesh.'' The 36-year-old executioner, who uses the pseudonym Abu Ahmad, was...

Hussein 'traitor' now a marked man Mosul, Iraq - The tribal chief who owned the mansion where Saddam Hussein's sons died has been warned that revenge is on the way. Whether they loved Saddam's regime or not, many residents of the northern city of Mosul view Nawaf al-Zaidan, the suspected informant, as a traitor for the sake of a $30-million (about R220-million) price tag on Uday and Qusay's heads. "He's a traitor to his country and religion," said a shopkeeper across from Al-Zaidan's gutted home, destroyed in the long but one-sided battle between Saddam's sons and US forces on Tuesday....

<p>July 28, 2003 -- U.S. troops found some interesting things alongside the bloodied, battered body of Uday Hussein - including a bizarre stash of items better suited to a hot date than combat, it was reported yesterday.</p> <p>The porno-loving playboy had a briefcase carrying Viagra, cologne, dress shirts, new underwear, a silk tie and a lone condom, Newsweek reported.</p>

As news of Uday and Qusay Hussein's most welcome demise was breaking across the globe, Iraqis lit the skies with celebratory fire, financial markets surged, oil prices dipped, and men and women of goodwill exulted in the apparent success, soon confirmed, of American forces who had rid the world of the monstrous brothers long instrumental in maintaining Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a rogue police state of domestic torture and international menace. But what did the Democrats do?There was presidential hopeful Richard Gephardt, giving a gee-whiz-bang foreign policy speech in San Francisco ("the incubator of internationalism," as he put it) about...

Lessons From the Killing of Uday and Qusay Amr Mohammed Al-Faisal Last week, US forces surrounded and killed the sons of president Saddam Hussein. I have never been a supporter of Saddam Hussein or his regime. Nor do I wish them well today. However, the way that Uday and Qusay were killed needs to be examined carefully so as to derive useful lessons. Let me briefly recap the events that led to their death. US forces, based on a tip-off from a friend of the Hussein family (in return for a $30 million reward), surrounded a house in Mosul in...

There was something wonderfully strained about how various media organisations dealt last week with the news of the deaths of Qusay and Uday Hussein. From the BBC to Reuters, there was palpable — if sternly repressed — dismay. One of the first headlines that the Ba’athist Broadcasting Corporation put out on the news was: “US celebrates ‘good’ Iraq news”. The quotation marks around “good” did not refer to any quote or source in the text. They were pure editorialising on behalf of the BBC, whose campaign to undermine the liberation of Iraq is now in full swing. It was not...

There is no doubt that the deaths of his two sons will be a devastating blow to Saddam Hussein, but those who hope that their loss will leave him a broken man are likely to be disappointed. He'll probably release another audiotape in the next few days saying that he has sacrificed his two sons for the struggle and calling on other Iraqis to be prepared to do the same, one veteran of the Iraqi opposition observed. What was already a life-and-death struggle for Saddam is now also a blood feud. Even so, his grief must be extreme. Saddam has...

#1 - Tab (Thomas Boldt), The Calgary Sun, Alberta, Canada #2 - Petar Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Austria #3 - Jean Veenenbos, Austria, Der Standard #4 - "Carlucho" Carlos Villar, El Economista, Mexico City, Mexico #5 - Peter Nicholson, Melbourne, Australia #6 - Bill Leak, Sydney, Australia