Uday Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and the eldest son of Saddam Hussein.
114 Facts About Uday Hussein
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Uday Hussein held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and Iraq Football Association, and head of the Fedayeen Saddam.
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Uday Hussein was the eldest child of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his first wife and cousin, Sajida Talfah.
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Uday Hussein was reportedly erratically ruthless and intimidating to perceived adversaries as well as to close friends.
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Uday Saddam Hussein Al Tikriti was born in Al-Karkh, Baghdad, to Saddam Hussein and Sajida Talfah while his father was in prison.
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Uday Hussein was rumored to have played with disarmed grenades as an infant.
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Uday Hussein was reportedly driven to school by a chauffeur in a Mercedes-Benz and surrounded by servants.
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Uday Hussein picked up his English teacher's Yorkshire accent and was described as a cheerful, bright child who was responsive to discipline, but an average student who struggled to concentrate.
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Uday Hussein began studies at Baghdad Medical College, but only stayed for three days.
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Uday Hussein wrote his master's thesis on "Iraqi military strategy during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war".
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Uday Hussein obtained a doctorate in political science from the University of Baghdad in 1998 and the title of his dissertation was "The world after the Cold War", in which he predicted the United States would no longer be a world power in 2015.
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Some have argued that Uday Hussein did not have academic prowess and his theses were written by others in exchange for money and gifts, with no one able to give Uday Hussein a low score out of fear.
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In 1984, after Uday Hussein graduated from university, Saddam appointed him chairman of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and the Iraq Football Association.
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Ammo Baba, whose football teams won 18 tournaments and participated in three Olympics, said that Uday Hussein's punishment destroyed players' athletic abilities.
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Maad Ibrahim Hamid, assistant coach of the national football team, said that Uday Hussein rewarded players financially for winning and threatened them with imprisonment if they lost.
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Ahmed Radhi said that after he was unwilling to join the new Al-Rasheed club, he was kidnapped at midnight by Uday Hussein's men, beaten and accused of harassment; he accepted Uday Hussein's offer when he was threatened with death.
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International footballer Saad Qais said that Uday Hussein was angry with him because he was sent off during a 1997 match against Turkmenistan.
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Uday Hussein's "discipline" was administered by jailers in a closed section of a detention facility for athletes and journalists in Radwaniyah Palace.
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In October 1988, at a party in honour of Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Uday Hussein murdered his father's personal valet and food taster, Kamel Hana Gegeo, possibly at the request of his mother.
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Uday Hussein considered his father's relationship with Shahbandar an insult to his mother.
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Once released, Uday Hussein was sent to Switzerland to act as the assistant to the Iraqi ambassador there.
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Uday Hussein was expelled by the Swiss government in 1990, after he was repeatedly arrested for fighting.
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Uday Hussein escaped from the hospital, set up a barricade around his home, and fired at anyone trying to enter his home.
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Uday Hussein surrendered with the persuasion of his brother Qusay.
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Uday Hussein fired at his brother Qusay and at step-uncles who were trying to prevent him from doing so.
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Later, under the guidance of Barzan, Uday Hussein apologized to his father.
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At the request of Saddam, Uday Hussein was sent out of Iraq under the control of Barzan to Switzerland in order to get rid of the disgrace caused by Uday Hussein.
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Uday Hussein threatened him and warned him not to shoot bullets in the air, so it was 'Kamel Hanna' except that he raised his weapon in the air and fired bullets, so Uday Hussein's response was a fatal blow to his head with a heavy club that was with him, and he was killed.
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In 1995, during a fight between his maternal uncle Louay and paternal half uncle Watban, Uday Hussein shot his half uncle as well as the other guests at the party.
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Uday Hussein then took his half uncle Watban to the hospital and disappeared.
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Saddam ordered Uday Hussein to ask his uncle to shoot him in the same way as Uday Hussein had shot him, but Watban refused to do so.
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Uday Hussein was angry with his brother Qusay for not preventing Saddam and had a nervous breakdown.
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Uday Hussein set up a barricade in front of his luxury cars in another nearby garage, armed himself with weapons, and waited for his father or his men to come.
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Saddam did not know that Uday Hussein has several other garages; I know of at least six more.
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Uday Hussein was just swimming with a lake of blood.
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Uday Hussein sustained permanent injuries during an assassination attempt while in his Porsche on the evening of 12 December 1996.
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Uday Hussein had visited the US with his cousin when he was 17.
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Uday Hussein expressed some political views, but he didn't involve me in them.
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Uday Hussein never spoke to me as a leader or the son of a leader.
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Salman Sharif, one of the four would-be assassins who attacked Uday Hussein, learned that he regularly visited one of the luxurious streets of Mansour every Thursday at around 7 in the evening to pick up a girl.
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Uday Hussein looked at his son with calmness, and if any other person, whatever his strength, saw his son in such a scene, he would've lost his temper, but Saddam did not shook his time, but turned around his son and said to him despite his knowledge Uday was unconscious, 'My son, such things are possible and can be expected for men, but we are right and they are false.
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Uday Hussein often attacked the leadership and no one stood up to him, so I avoided him and did not come close to him.
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Uday Hussein used to hate me a lot and tried to offend me and caused me a lot of problems, but his father's interest in me was a deterrent in front of him.
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Uday Hussein claimed that Uday was outraged by the rumors that he was impotent after the assassination attempt and ordered the secret police to make up stories about his virility.
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Uday Hussein didn't think that it was clean for his dogs to retrieve the birds he shot, so he would force his friends to act as retrievers when he went hunting.
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Uday Hussein said that Uday even started to look at 12-year-old girls after he was 30 years old.
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Ala Bashir claimed that Uday Hussein had sustained brain damage due to low blood pressure after the assassination attempt, but doctors could not report this damage to Saddam.
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Uday Hussein asked for Ali as-Sahir, who was brought to him.
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Uday Hussein cited a family history of wounds acquired in battle, ending with his father, wounded in an operation "for the party" in 1959.
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When Saddam was informed of what happened, after several hours, Uday Hussein was put in prison but released after a short period.
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The chief of the Baghdad Hunting Club claimed that after a wedding party in the late 1990s, the bride suddenly disappeared, Uday Hussein's bodyguards locked all the doors, and the groom committed suicide.
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Uday Hussein wanted a different woman every night and had them kidnapped, usually very young girls, but women from wealthy Baghdad families.
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Uday Hussein had allegations against him as recently as early March 2003, shortly before the invasion, when a 13-year-old girl said she accompanied her older sister to Jadriea Equestrian Club, which he frequented.
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Uday Hussein ordered the kidnapping of Ilham Ali al-Aazami, Miss Iraq, after she had rejected him.
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Uday Hussein then committed suicide by throwing herself off the balcony.
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Individuals close to Yahia and Uday Hussein denied that the former was the latter's body-double, or denied that Uday Hussein had even had a body double.
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Uday Hussein was known for forcing guests to drink large quantities of alcohol at his parties.
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Uday Hussein's employees claimed that they were tortured by Uday or on Uday's orders.
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Uday Hussein would have food and drink tables while many people in Iraq were starving.
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Uday Hussein would interrupt my performance, get up on stage with a big glass of cognac for himself and one for me.
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Uday Hussein would insist that I drink all of it with him.
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Uday Hussein's friends are all terrified of him, because he can have them imprisoned or killed.
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Uday Hussein kicked the man in the ass so hard that his boot flew off.
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Uday Hussein claimed that in 1997, after the assassination attempt, in the garden of Uday's palace, he was forced to sing among the lions.
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Uday Hussein did not punish anyone at that time, but he only held accountable the abusive artists.
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Uday Hussein used to meet with me two to three times during the same day and did not harm me or my group at all.
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Uday Hussein founded his own sports club called Al-Rasheed and signed all the best players from the country to play for the club.
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Uday Hussein became the editor of the Babel newspaper, the general secretary of the Iraqi Union of Students and the head of the Fedayeen Saddam, as well as the head of the Iraq Journalists Union.
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Uday Hussein had a television channel, Youth TV, which aired reports by other Arab channels not usually heard on Iraq's state-run media.
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Uday Hussein used his media empire to discredit people who got in his way.
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Uday Hussein seemed proud of his reputation and called himself Abu Sarhan, an Arabic term for "wolf".
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Uday Hussein ran a food processing business called Super Chicken, which reportedly earned him millions of dollars, and an ice cream company called the Wave.
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Uday Hussein was responsible for nearly 20 American prisoners of war captured during the 1991 Gulf War, including ex-Navy Commander Jeff Zaun, forced to appear on Iraqi state television and forced to condemn their country after being tortured.
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When Uday Hussein took over most of the media, the situation in Iraq got worse.
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Uday Hussein knew very well that many journalists did not support his father.
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Uday Hussein was a young man like many young men trying to get close to beautiful women.
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Uday Hussein would send his phone number to every young woman he liked.
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Uday Hussein was generous at times to the extreme, but at other times, he became unimaginably stingy.
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Uday Hussein used to say it himself, he used to say that he possessed the foundations of a state.
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Some waiters working in high-end clubs said that they would shrink with terror whenever Uday Hussein arrived, drunk and armed, looking for women to kidnap.
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Uday Hussein was a young man who had connections, and he was loved by everyone, and everyone wished to accompany him, but he was a smart person, as he knew very well and with an understanding of how to identify friends.
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Uday Hussein used to provide everything necessary for the players from homes, cars and all means of rest and decent living.
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Uday Hussein was bloody fierce in the moment only, and after he laughed and loved fun.
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The process would be recorded with video or audio to demonstrate that it was carried out and Uday Hussein would maintain a set of these videotapes.
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Uday Hussein supplied oil, cigarettes and other prohibited materials through smuggling and sold them on the black market in Iraq.
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Uday Hussein sold alcohol and racehorses to rich Gulf countries.
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Uday Hussein amassed a large video collection, found in his palace in 2003, much of which featured himself in both public and private situations.
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Uday Hussein was feeding lions and the other wild animals in his palace and often fed them with his own hands.
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Uday Hussein has two prisons in the presidential palace, a prison in the armory, a prison in the Olympic Committee, and a prison at his farm in the Radhwaniya compound.
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Uday Hussein has gained control of all aid going to Iraq from the United Arab Emirates.
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Uday Hussein then arranges for this aid to be sold in stores, and gets the proceeds.
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Personal accounts state Uday grew up idolizing his father, Saddam Hussein, although their relationship later became strained due to his father's many mistresses.
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Uday Hussein maintained a close cordial relationship with his mother, Sajida Talfah.
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Uday Hussein wrote a letter to him in 1996 professing her love despite this.
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Uday Hussein later married Suja, the daughter of Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri, who had a son with him, although she alleged that he treated her badly.
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Uday Hussein was 6feet 6inches tall and athletically built, though after the assassination attempt, he was partially paralyzed and would eventually use a wheelchair in private and a cane in public.
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Uday Hussein is at times the primary cause of the internal squabbles and at others a catalyst for such squabbles within the family.
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Uday Hussein was strongly opposed to this marriage as he was influenced by his mother, Sajida, Saddam's wife and first cousin.
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Uday Hussein is a member of the board of an athletic club.
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Uday Hussein is treated in a special manner by his father, with many servants and bodyguards.
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Uday Hussein cannot tolerate his [younger full] brother Qusay, let alone Ali.
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Uday Hussein obviously has some of his father's traits as well, but it is his maternal grandfather that seems to have influenced him as well.
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Uday Hussein refused to talk about the issue of divorce and told her: 'Our family does not know about divorce.
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Uday Hussein was reported to have converted to Shia Islam from Sunni Islam in 2001, but he denied these reports.
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In July 2002, the Iraqi newspaper Babel, owned by Uday Hussein, published an article by "Abu Hatim" which claimed that the American administration was planning to strike Iraq and exert political control in the Middle East.
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Uday Hussein could tell very good descriptions on Qusay and Uday as well, their habits.
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Uday Hussein had been the Ace of Hearts on the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.
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Mustafa had been the last one to die in the four-hour siege and kept shooting even after Qusay and Uday Hussein had been killed, US military officials said.
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Uday Hussein told me that he was, of course, proud of his sons.
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Newsweek claimed that the contents of Uday Hussein's briefcase consisted of Viagra, numerous bottles of cologne, unopened packages of men's underwear, dress shirts, a silk tie and a single condom.
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Uday Hussein said Saddam and his sons had been moving freely around Baghdad, often with astonishingly little effort to hide themselves during the war.
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At one stage, Uday Hussein had driven past a convoy of US soldiers, looking at their faces and quietly insulting the men who now controlled his country.
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For example, Uday Hussein's beard was trimmed and an 8-inch metal bar in his leg from the 1996 assassination attempt was removed.
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Uday Hussein was buried in a cemetery in his hometown of Al-Awja near Tikrit, alongside Qusay and Mustafa.