In March 2003, the United States officially launched a military operation against Iraq, and at the same time, a book by the German publisher Goldmann, "I Was Saddam's Son", attracted global attention.
The book was first published in 1994, but it didn't make any waves, or it was constantly suppressed by a mysterious force, and with the start of the Iraq war, the story behind "Children of the Devil" was re-dug.
Everyone should be familiar with Saddam, but in Iraq, his eldest son, Uday, is even more notorious, not only lecherous, but also far more violent than his father, which is why it is said that both father and son have a habit of finding substitutes.
"I Was Saddam's Son" is about a substitute, written by Wendell and paraphrased by an Iraqi man named Latif Yahya.
——This person who looks exactly like Uday claims to have been Uday's stand-in and bodyguard, because this is his own statement, so it is quite a "tainted witness", and for a time this Yahya became a world celebrity.
As the story fermented, a Dutch film company even made his story into a film of the same name, which went viral after being screened worldwide.
Because of his fame, doubts followed, and even attracted Saddam's former assistant to stand on the platform in person, jumping out on multiple occasions to clarify that neither Saddam nor Uday had a stand-in.
In the face of these doubts, Yahya did not show weakness, and also made a strong response: "If I am fake, how can I know the situation in every room in Saddam's palace?" These people are rubbish. ”
In addition to Yahya's conviction of the truth of the matter, one can also feel his contempt and hatred for Saddam Hussein and those close to Uday, and indeed, this Yahya's identity is very special, and because of this, the credibility of the matter soars.
1. True and false stand-ins: I was Saddam's son?
Who is this Latif Yahya, who claims to be the substitute for Ukraine?
He was born into a prominent family in Iraq, grew up in a wealthy family, and was a classmate of Uday in middle school, and the two attended the "Baghdad Boys' School", where the two did not have much intersection.
According to Yahya, in 1986, he successfully obtained a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Baghdad, after which he chose to enlist in the army, only to be targeted by Uday in his second year as a soldier because of their similar appearance, and the trustee was asked: "Do you want to be Saddam's son?" ”
The reason why Uday found him is also very simple, a little processing can deceive many people, he wants to find a substitute for himself, after all, he knows that bad things are never done, and he is indispensable to be shot, and he looks at Yahya's face at a glance.
Ye Haia, who learned about this, naturally refused ten thousand, and he couldn't know what his "old classmate" was, and the danger of being a substitute was too high.
- Uday, of course, was first tempted by profit, saying that Yahya could enjoy everything except his girlfriend, but was ruthlessly rejected.
Because Yahya repeatedly refused to be a stand-in, Uday arrested him and put him in a private prison, where he was not given food for seven days, during which time he continued to torture him with various criminal laws, and even threatened to hurt his sisters in front of him.
Forced by desperation, Yahya could only sign a "deed of sale" and agree to be Uday's substitute, which was four years.
However, it is not so easy to be Uday's stand-in, just look "similar" is not enough, Uday's requirements are "completely similar", it is best to even deceive his father, so he has performed multiple plastic surgery on Yahya's face.
According to Yahya, his front teeth were removed and a small cut in his jaw was made to make the two look more illegible.
Of course, in addition to her physical similarity, Yahya was also asked to imitate Uday's brutal personality, an experience that became a nightmare that Yahya will never forget.
The first thing to do is to watch videos of him torturing his opponents, although he served in the army, where has Yahya seen so many scenes of torture and killing, according to him: "After watching these videos, you have long regarded death as a normal thing." ”
It is obviously not enough to watch the video, Uday will take his own stand-in everywhere he goes, and Yahya will watch from the side when he commits adultery and robbery.
Because in Iraq, Uday has long been notorious, enemies are naturally all over the world, often encounter people who want to assassinate, Yahya recounted, he has encountered 9 assassinations, fortunately, all of them are saved.
Due to Uday's brutal character, no one could do anything by his side for long, and so did Yahya, whose career ended four years later in 1991.
On this day, Yahya got off the elevator from the Babylon Hotel as usual, who knew that just out of the elevator door, Uday was waiting here for a long time, and suddenly shot him in the chest without warning, although he was seriously injured, but not life-threatening.
Afterwards, with the help of some Americans, he managed to escape to Vienna, Austria, where he had the opportunity to make these things public.
After Yahya came forward to expose Uday's atrocities, people who had worked with Saddam Hussein or Uday continued to come forward to refute it, claiming that Yahya was famous.
But Uday's reputation has long been discredited in Iraq, and he is undoubtedly the famous "chaos king" there.
2. Uday: Baghdad's famous "Demon King of the Mixed World"
As long as the name of Uday is mentioned in Iraq, almost everyone knows the "chaos demon king", and for him, the locals hate Saddam more than Saddam, and Uday, who is full of violence, has shown a cruel character different from ordinary people since he was a child.
Probably because he was influenced by his father at an early age, he was used to seeing death and abuse, and in Uday's eyes, he regarded human life as grass, let alone no rules to speak of, and all actions were self-centered madness.
When he was in middle school, he would take his girlfriend to the classroom, commit indecent behavior in public, and after being stopped by the teacher, no one ever saw the teacher at school again.
In terms of study, it is even more a big joke, what a doctorate, all fake, Uday was born with a golden spoon of power since childhood, he had no mind to study at all, his homework was written by bodyguards, he was looking for fun all day, and everyone in Iraq knew his name.
Uday has an older brother named Qusay, and unlike Qusay's simple cold-bloodedness, Uday is truly brutal, he enjoys the sound of others screaming and moaning, and even collects all kinds of torture, and is very keen to torture others.
Qusay and Uday did not coincide, and in his father Saddam Hussein, Qusay was obviously more suitable to be the successor than Uday, and even Uday was imprisoned by his father for 40 days, so he left Switzerland.
As the scales of power began to tilt, Uday became more unscrupulous, and his resentment was vented on innocent people.
- Because his younger brother Qusay ate well at his father Saddam Hussein, after making mistakes again and again, Saddam Hussein only handed over some idle errands to Uday, such as TV stations or the Olympic Committee, which made Iraqi national athletes miserable.
As long as Uday goes, there will inevitably be various "lynching prisons", and the Iraqi Olympic Committee is a prison that abuses lynching, and for the country's professional athletes, if they do not get the promised results, they will inevitably be subjected to various perverted criminal laws.
In addition, it is also very harsh on the TV station, once an Iraqi TV executive was publicly caned for grammatical errors during broadcasting, which was not small and insulting.
In addition to these seemingly "simple" punishments, Uday also likes to keep "pets".
However, these pets are not good stubble, jackals and leopards are almost not the same, not only need to be fed at sky-high prices every day, but also watching others being bitten by them has become a perverted fun in Uday's life.
It would be naïve to think that those around Uday could escape these atrocities, and the bodyguards, butlers, and servants were not spared.
There was a butler by Uday's side who was given 160 torture rods just for loading the wrong plate, and even more excessively, if you had worked beside Uday, you would never be able to leave with your whole body.
There was once a man who had worked with him who was going abroad, and Uday, fearing that the man would tell him about the evil things he had done, insisted that the bodyguards catch him and cut off his tongue.
Of course, for Uday, cutting off tongues and ears and the like happened frequently, and the maid who worked beside him had seen him cut off the ear of a bodyguard.
The beastly Uday was not just brutal, he was also known locally for being lustful, and even forced Saddam to want to castrate his son himself.
Third, life is extravagant and debauchery
In Uday's eyes, Iraqi women are all in their own pockets, only the difference between wanting and not wanting.
Because Udaygui is the son of Saddam, he lives extremely luxuriously, has endless money, he likes to collect cars, almost all kinds of expensive luxury cars from all over the world, scattered in various underground parking lots in Iraq.
For Uday, cars are indeed one of his favorite things, and can even be described as "car addicted", he once told people around him that he did not want children, because a car was enough.
In addition to luxury cars, he also collects all kinds of rare treasures, and Uday's bodyguards often help him find all kinds of treasures on the Internet, as long as he sees something, he will definitely get it, even if it is unscrupulous.
The luxurious life made Uday promiscuous, and under the temptation of money and power, many girls took the initiative to throw themselves into Uday's arms.
Five days a week, Uday would go to his "Baghdad Yacht Club" on the banks of the Tigris River, and each time he went to the bodyguards, at least 20 beautiful young girls would be prepared for his amusement, and all of them were different.
But after taking the initiative to throw himself into the arms for a long time like this, there was less novelty, so Uday began to embark on a pathological path, raping and plundering, doing all evil, and in Iraq it was spread that "as long as it is a woman that Uday has a fancy for, no one is spared."
This is also true, not to mention the common people, even high-ranking government and military officials have been persecuted.
At a banquet, a senior Iraqi government official and his 14-year-old daughter attended, and Uday looked through a telescope from a distance, saw the official's daughter, and immediately called the bodyguards to take the girl with him.
At first, she was tempted with money and gems, but the girl refused, so Uday forcibly tied her into the trunk of the car, and after three days of playing enough, the girl was sent back to her father.
The senior government official was furious, but under Uday's threat, he could only swallow it. In addition to government officials, senior military officials were not spared.
- When attending the wedding of a high-ranking military official, Uday took a fancy to the bride, who was also a member of a famous local family, but Uday managed so much that he defiled the bride in front of the groom. Afterwards, the bride committed suicide in humiliation.
Similar things happen to Uday almost every day, and it eventually turns into hunting on the street, specifically picking underage girls, and if they don't, they will either force the girls to commit suicide or forcibly kidnap them.
In the eyes of the locals, Uday is like a demon, and any girl will be completely finished once he takes a fancy to him.
However, in Uday's eyes, he has a difficult obstacle in his heart, that is, his brother Qusay.
In the eyes of his father, Qusay is calmer and more like himself, and even Qusay himself does not agree with the Uday lifestyle, so the two brothers have always been at odds and quarrel every time they meet.
In order to compete, Uday also specifically had a relationship with his brother's girlfriend, so perverted that he wanted to print a "U" (Uday's English initial) on the ass of these girls with a soldering iron, just to show that his life was no more tragic than his brother.
As such things grew, Uday's hatred and resentment grew day by day, and he could only make himself more and more mysterious.
4. Uday, whose whereabouts are mysterious, will eventually end his life of sin
Such a bad Uday can still live, mainly due to his suspicious mentality, which makes his whereabouts extremely mysterious, especially after having a substitute, it can be said that it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.
Uday himself created a code, not only for the places he frequented, but also for bodyguards, servants, butlers and cooks, such as the Iraqi Olympic Committee called "60", his residence called "111", the private chef "222", and so on.
——It can also be seen from here that although Uday is tyrannical and tyrannical, he is as timid as a mouse, and he seems to be murderous, but in fact, he is afraid of being killed by others every minute.
In the 1990 war between Iraq and Kuwait, Uday did not dare to fight in person, and in the end Yahya went, fortunately, he survived.
It is very appropriate to describe Uday as "the three caves of the cunning rabbit", he may have inherited the essence of his father here, no matter where he went, he first shot smoke bombs, and he went out in different teams, so that people could not guess which car he was in.
But no matter how cunning the rabbit is, there are still flaws, and since Yahya escaped in 1991, he does not know what kind of danger he will be in without a substitute.
In 1996, an assassination imprisoned him, and 8 bullets left in the body caused Uday to suffer from stroke, mental illness and other sequelae, and his left leg and left toe atrophied to varying degrees, looking like a waste.
Moreover, it is rumored that this assassination completely abolished Uday's male function, and the attendants who went to bed after that were also two men, including his rehabilitation doctor.
Lying in the palace, Uday was pushed in a wheelchair by the butler every day, and he could only be convenient in the potty when he was incontinent, and even wore socks every day and wailed in pain.
At this time, Uday was 32 years old, but at this time he was already a waste man who had lost male function, and until 2002, the 38-year-old Uday still found a lactating woman in her 20s to provide him with milk, fantasizing about what magical effects it could have.
But what he did not know was that in a year's time, he would end his sinful life, perhaps a relief, for the Iraqi people and for Uday himself.
July 22, 2003 was a big day for the Iraqi people to celebrate the whole country, after more than six hours of fierce fighting between the US military and Saddam, the US military successfully killed two of Saddam's princes, Uday and Qusay.
According to the information provided by the US military, the reason why the location of Saddam's two princes can be accurately known is mainly because a mysterious informant provided intelligence, and the US military also gave the informant a bounty of $15 million according to the previous agreement.
In fact, there are countless people who want Uday and Qusay to die, so no one later investigates who this "informant" is, whoever he is, he is the unsung hero of the Iraqi people.
After losing his two sons, Saddam Hussein was like a bereaved dog and could only go into hiding. For the Iraqi people, if Saddam Hussein has a mixed reputation, for Uday, he is the demon of the world, the embodiment of Satan.
However, the wicked will eventually have evil rewards, and Uday has been a waste man for 7 years, and in the end he was blown up alive, which can be regarded as more than a dead ...