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Uday Saddam Hussein Al-Nasiri Al Tikriti was born in Al-Karkh, Baghdad, to Saddam Hussein and Sajida Talfah while his father was in prison. [2] Multiple sources give different birth dates; although official sources give a birth date of 18 June 1964, The Independent gave a birth date of 9 March 1964, while others give a 1965 birth.
Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, were killed during an American military operation conducted on 22 July 2003, in the city of Mosul, Iraq. The operation originally intended to apprehend them but turned into a four-hour gun battle outside a fortified safehouse which ended with the death of the brothers ...
Had Saddam Hussein had 100 children, other than Uday and Qusay, Saddam Hussein would have sacrificed them on the same path. God honoured us by their martyrdom. If you had killed Uday, Qusay, Mustafa, and another mujahideen man with them, all the youths of our nation and the youths of Iraq are Uday, Qusay, and Mustafa in the fields of jihad." [20]
The playing cards. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States–led coalition, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency developed a set of playing cards to help troops identify the most-wanted members of President Saddam Hussein's government, mostly high-ranking members of the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party or members of the Revolutionary Command Council; among ...
In 1995 Uday Hussein formed the Fedayeen Saddam with ten to fifteen thousand recruits to maintain internal security in Iraq. The Fedayeen fighters tend to come from Saddam's hometown of Tikrit or are recruited from his al-Bu Nasir tribe. [8] Uday used the Fedayeen for personal reasons such as smuggling and suppressing opponents. [1]
Saddam Hussein: President of Iraq: Executed on 30 December 2006: 2. Qusay Hussein: Director of the SSO: Killed on 22 July 2003 3. Uday Hussein: Commander of Fedayeen Saddam: Killed on 22 July 2003 4. Abid Hamid Mahmud: Presidential Secretary: Executed on 7 June 2012 5. Ali Hassan al-Majid: Director of IIS: Executed on 25 January 2010 6. Izzat ...
The death toll in Iraq this year ranges from some 7,900 to 8,700 people so far, making 2013 the most deadly year for the country since 2008, according to IraqBodyCount.org, a U.K.-based website founded in 2003 and run by volunteers to record civilian deaths.
Kamel Hana Gegeo (Syriac: ܟܐܡܠ ܚܢܢ ܓܓܘ; Arabic: كامل حنا ججو; c. 1960s – 18 October 1988) was an Iraqi Assyrian bodyguard, valet, and food taster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He was murdered by Saddam’s son, Uday Hussein, at a party with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as a guest.