Saddam's eldest son, Uday, a demonic figure who kills and rapes without evil, is deeply hated by the Iraqis, and finally even Saddam Hussein is not used to it.
If we talk about the causal theory of good and evil, Udai, who has done so many bad things, will be punished one day.
On December 12, 1996, retribution came to the door.
On this day, Uday was driving a luxury car around the streets of Baghdad, waiting for the bodyguards to bring the beautiful woman to him, when suddenly, a group of unidentified assassins shot a frenzy into the car, he was shot 17 times, and surprisingly, after trying to rescue him, he miraculously survived. However, the 32-year-old Udai was seriously injured and his left leg was basically disabled.
Who is going to kill Uday?
Some in the Western media say that Kusai, the brother of Udai, bought murder in order to fight for power. Others say that Saddam Hussein is really not accustomed to the violence of the eldest son, and he personally attacked it.
Kussay's assassination of Uday makes sense, but it is far-fetched to say that Saddam Hussein wanted to end the life of his eldest son in this way. Although Saddam Hussein is called a "tyrant" by some people, after all, the tiger is poisonous and does not eat children, not to mention that he once had high hopes for Udai and loved him very much. Even if Uday fell out of favor, he would not be able to punish him in such an extreme way.
Besides, Uday's violence was "habitual" by Saddam.
The violent concept of the two brothers, Uday and Kusai, was actually subtly suppressed from birth. It is said that in infancy, the toys of the two brothers were grenades, and they accompanied their father to the torture room.
In a torture room called the "Palace of Doom", there were "wires with pincers, sharp iron stakes that forced prisoners to sit on them, and a machine that still retained the debris of the chopped fingers." Saddam Hussein has always believed in violent coercion.
As the saying goes, "if there is a father, there must be a son", children are the best people to teach, but they can not distinguish between good and bad, usually adults do what they do. Under the influence of his father, it is extremely common for Udai to develop into a "violent madman".
Therefore, Saddam Hussein had people brutally kill his eldest son, Uday, for completely untenable reasons.
If it had been his younger brother Kusse, would Saddam Hussein have been so eccentric and not held accountable?
Others say that Uday's uncle hired someone to take revenge.
In 1995, Uday attended a party, he was drunk, in order to please a gypsy dancer, and his uncle got into a conflict, he made a mistake, raised his hand and shot randomly, and his uncle was shot in the leg.
In order to avenge himself, it was reasonable for the uncle to hire someone to kill Udai. However, his uncle's power and wealth depended on Saddam, and if he really wanted revenge, he would not be afraid of Saddam or Kusai to trouble him?
Uday, who survived the death, said on television that he was shot by the Iranians. However, no one was tried or executed for this.
So, who is the real culprit behind the scenes?
The assassination of Uday seemed to be an open case, and the mystery was not solved until 7 years later, after the outbreak of the Iraq War and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime.
It all started with the two major factions in Iraq.
Iraq has two main Islamic factions, Shiites and 45% Sunnis, who make up 53 percent of the population. Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, was eccentric when he came to power, focusing on supporting Sunnis and suppressing Shiites. Therefore, many Shiites have no natural affection for Saddam Hussein.
Salman was a Shiite Muslim who, by appearance, was a polite man.
When Salman was a teenager studying at a technical college, a classmate from his hometown introduced him to join an armed resistance group, and the young and vigorous agreed without hesitation. For the next two years, he spent his spare time organizing secret resistance groups while attending school.
After the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991, a Shiite Muslim uprising broke out in southern Iraq, and 22-year-old Salman and his comrades also took part in the fighting, once seizing the town of Satra in their hometown, and fighting with Saddam's army that came to suppress it for three days and three nights.
However, outnumbered, Salman was arrested. Due to the lack of evidence by Saddam's government, Salman was freed 18 days after his arrest.
After the uprising and repression, Salman was not frightened, but more emboldened, and after his release, he hurried to hide in the swamps near Basra in southern Iraq, and formed a resistance group called "August 15" with his comrades.
Although Salman regained his freedom, he was also a person with a "previous crime" and would naturally become the object of "care" for Saddam's army. In order to avoid harassment, he and the members of the Resistance had to move through the reeds several times by canoe and live a life of hiding in Tibet.
Life in the swamps was harsh, and many of the opposition groups that could not hold out fled abroad, but Salman was a very determined man, and continued to live an "inhuman" life with his comrades-in-arms. They assassinated regional Ba'ath Party leaders or local officials, causing regional panic.
In 1996, the leader of the "August 15th" organization, Hussein M. Hamza decided to assassinate the highest echelons of Saddam's regime in order to "weaken Saddam's regime, shake the foundation of its rule, and create national chaos," thus allowing more people to join the opposition to Saddam's regime.
Hussein. Hamza appointed Salman as the leader of the Baghdad Action Team. In mid-1996, Salman led the team to infiltrate Baghdad. Their target was Saddam's eldest son, Uday.
Salman and his party grasped some of the rules of Uday's actions, that is, every Thursday night they returned to baghdad's Mansour district to find beautiful women and forcibly take them to one of their apartments.
Salman, who received this information, was so excited that for the rest of the day he went to the bustling streets of Mansour every Thursday night to find out the news and try his luck to see if he could touch Uday.
It has been confirmed that Uday shows up in the Mansour district every Thursday at around 7 p.m., usually with bodyguards, sometimes alone. Although Uday is sometimes a man, there are many people who hide in the shadows to protect him, such as secret police, security personnel, secret informants, etc.
Salman did not dare to act rashly, and once it was revealed, it would be a disaster of death. He had to think again and again, and when he had a full grasp of it, he dared to act.
Salman selected 3 death squad members and formed a four-man assassination team with himself. They rented an apartment in Baghdad, which was relatively secluded and not easily discovered. In addition, they prepared an escape car and smuggled guns, ammunition and explosives into Baghdad, where they began the assassination when the time was ripe. They surveyed the local terrain over and over again, familiarizing themselves with each road.
Of the members of the assassination team, one was responsible for driving the car, two were responsible for assassinating Uday, and Salman was responsible for covering the gunmen. Because Uday is notorious in Iraq, the assassination team is actually still very excited, and there is a sense of righteousness and thinness of "eliminating harm for the people".
After three or four months of meticulous preparation, the assassination was pressed the start button, and Salman and his crew pretended to eat at a famous ice cream shop in the Mansour district, their eyes sharp as eagles, observing the surroundings, waiting for the target to appear. However, this Thursday night, the targets did not appear, and they had to evacuate.
However, to the discouragement of Salman and his party, on the second Thursday night and the third Thursday night, they did not wait for the appearance of Uday. At one point, they suspected that their actions had been exposed, and that a huge net was being woven outside, waiting for them to cast their own nets.
It was later learned that Uzei was busy watching international soccer tournaments with Iraqi teams, and that he was the chairman of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and had always attached great importance to sports. At this point in time, he did not have time to find beautiful women for fun.
Waiting is hope, but waiting also wears away hope.
On the fifth Thursday, they still hadn't waited for Uday. On August 15, the leader of the organization, Hamza, sent a secret letter to tell Salman to cancel the assassination operation, fearing that after the matter was revealed, he would suffer a "catastrophe".
Holding his breath, however, Salman asked to try again, and if he did not succeed, he had to abandon the assassination.
At seven o'clock in the evening of December 12, Salman found an unusual car, a very striking golden Porsche, and he concluded that the person inside was Uday.
Uday was driving slowly down the street alone, without any bodyguards around, and the bodyguards went to help him find a beautiful woman. Maybe Udai felt that there were too many security personnel around him, enough to keep him safe. However, he was still careless in the end.
The two sought-after members of the assassination team seized the opportunity, immediately pulled out the AK-47 submachine gun, and fired a burst of heavy fire at Uday's car, firing a total of 50 bullets, the windshield and the glass of the passenger seat were beaten to pieces, they ran out of bullets, and saw Uday leaning on the driver's seat motionless, the whole process took less than a minute. They were ecstatic and concluded that Udai would not survive, so they quickly threw away their guns and ran into the car that received them, and fled for their lives.
Salman and his crew did not blindly escape, they returned to the house they rented. Perhaps having done something great and not having much fear of death, he stayed there for one night. The next day, he escaped From Baghdad by car and returned to the southern swampy region. Salman remained in the swampy area until the outbreak of the Iraq War.
The assassinated Udai was shot 17 times in the body, and under the full rescue, Yan Wangye did not accept him, but the lower half of his body was left with a lifelong disability and he was in pain.
Saddam Hussein was furious, even though Uday fell out of favor, he was also the eldest son he had cultivated for many years, and he knew that those who assassinated Udai were going to make him angry, thus setting off a large-scale revenge campaign and causing turmoil in the country. However, he put up with it, and for the sake of the country's long-term interests, he did not want to win the plan. So, after such a big assassination, people don't seem to see Saddam's tough wrists.
But as a father, how does Saddam Hussein face a crippled son?
Only by finding out the murderer and avenging Udai can we unload the hatred in our hearts.
Saddam Hussein asked him to secretly investigate the truth. One of the members of the Resistance who knew the truth of the matter was arrested in Jordan and sent to Saddam Hussein's government, and this person could not bear the heavy sentence and confessed.
Saddam's security personnel first caught a gunman, tortured him to confess, and identified his accomplices. Immediately afterwards, Saddam Hussein carried out a terrible act of revenge.
Salman's father and seven brothers were arrested and soon after he sent his mother to a funeral home in Baghdad to collect the body. The brothers or fathers of the other two assassins were shot and their property confiscated. In December 2002, the third assassin was eliminated by Iraqi agents.
Salman, who had been in the swampy area, escaped the attack.
On March 20, 2003, the Iraq War broke out, and Saddam Hussein had no intention of sending people to hunt down Salman. With the collapse of Saddam's regime, Salman's personal safety was sufficiently guaranteed, and he did not have to worry about the risk of his head falling on the ground, and he stood up to the media to tell the media about the entire process of assassinating Uday.
Although Salman regretted that he had not been able to kill Uday at that time, he still felt very proud and proud, and in his eyes, he had done a great thing. However, many of his family members also died tragically because of him, and it was sad and sad.
"Those who have attained the Tao have more help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help." Whether it is Saddam Hussein, Uday or Qusai, for many Iraqis, they are a symbol of brutality, doomed to lose the hearts of the people, and the voices of rebellion against them are getting louder and louder, and the number of rebels is increasing, and finally pushing themselves into the abyss of eternal disaster.