After the US military released the news that it had killed Udai and Kusai, among the silent Arab countries, the Kuwaiti media, which had always been at odds with Iraq, bluntly and actively reported:
"The nightmarish Uday and Qusai have finally been eliminated, and the Iraqi people rejoice."
After the news reached the United States, the market reaction was very violent, the dollar exchange rate rose and became stronger, and the price of oil fell in response.
So, some viewers who don't know much about it have to ask, who is this Uday whose people are happy after death, who briefly maintained the Bush administration, and even affected crude oil exports?
Uday Hussein, the eldest son of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was born in Baghdad in 1964. Saddam Wasdam was imprisoned at the time, and with the help of his mother, he acted as an intelligence transmitter, so he was deeply favored by his father Saddam Hussein and once became the successor of Saddam's regime.
It is understood that the people around Wudai say that his people are "extremely smart", not only proficient in English, can fly helicopters, but also always track the latest international developments. He received a degree in civil engineering from the University of Baghdad, a doctorate in military science, and served as a member of the Iraqi National Assembly, chairman of the Olympic Committee, and once in charge of the paramilitary organization Saddam Hussein Death Squad. As his wings grew, Uday was awarded the rank of lieutenant general by Saddam Hussein, sharing the power of life and death.
Compared with his deeds in the military and political circles, people are familiar with his terrifying "hobbies". What "hobby" is so terrible?
When it comes to Udai, the first thing that can be thought of is luxury car supercar, Cuban cigars, the women around them constantly, and life is extremely extravagant and absurd. According to reports, Udai has parked hundreds of luxury cars in baghdad's private garage, and there are people who are staring at the information of new supercar luxury cars launched at any time on the Internet, translated into Arabic for Udai to enjoy.
Uday is also an alcoholic, the wine in the official residence is not exaggerated from the ground to the ceiling, he is most fond of "blue ribbon" and "black square", there are also special people who buy it across borders, and it is said that he drinks a quarter of it every night.
However, these "little hobbies" are really very friendly and peaceful compared to the latter "hobbies". Udai took pleasure in adultery, captivity, and torture. But whatever he looks up to is nothing he can't do. It is said that at the banquet, he took a fancy to the daughter of a high-ranking political official, and then immediately let people abduct him, and after rape, he threatened the high-ranking official, and if he did not obediently let his daughter be his girlfriend, he would make his whole family disappear. What is even more absurd is that Uday took a fancy to the bride at a wedding banquet, the bride disappeared directly after the wedding, the groom let people block the scene, and as a result, he heard the bride's screams from the hall, fully understood, and drank and hated suicide.
Torturing people has long been a pleasure in Udai. The people around them trembled, like walking on thin ice, lest which step made Udai unhappy, they would be punished, and it was better to live than to die. In addition to scouring the Internet for all kinds of torture in ancient times, he also invented it himself. The beast-like Udai is like a heaven that is ready to flash and thunder at any time, the bodyguard has a peculiar smell on his body, and the cane is tortured; the butler loses his hand to load the wrong dish, and the cane is executed; the person who hears that he knows his evil deeds is going to go abroad, afraid of being "famous", and catches back the tongue.
For domestic athletes is also no soft, the grand duke will let the athletes write down the guarantee of getting the first few places before they play, if they can't cash in, they have their own punishment prison waiting for them.
If we look at it from the perspective of the inherent evil of human nature, Uday is a natural personality defect; but from the perspective of the inherent goodness of human nature, we cannot help but wonder what caused such a "human demon".
It is reported that Uday has been introverted since childhood, but as the eldest son of the Iraqi president, it can be said that he is above ten thousand people under one person, turning his hand to the cloud and the hand to rain, this strong contrast between personal and identity has created Audei's distorted personality, not to mention, Saddam's favor as a catalyst.
It can only be said that the springs of evil are watered with the flowers of evil. At the age of six, he followed his father to grope for guns, watching the execution site where blood was spattered and watching monkeys fight in zoos, and if he still had the kindness and compassion of being a human being, he was also lost under the money and firearms taught by his father. From childhood to youth, he learned only contempt for life.
Uday's classmate and stand-in, Yahya, was the luckier of the thousands of tragedies he had caused. After the death of Udai, he went to a foreign country and was finally freed. Latif Yahya was Audey's high school classmate and a well-known family, but because of his resemblance to Udai, he was forcibly selected as a stand-in and signed a deed of sale. Latif certainly didn't want to be a stand-in, but there was no way — Uday threatened him with his family.
In order to resemble a god, Ye Haiya was "changed teeth" for plastic surgery, watching Udai's video tapes 16 hours a day, learning to speak, walk, express, and even smoke cigars. At that time, Iraq launched a war against Kuwait, and in order to boost morale, the "prince rode in person", but the cautious Udai did not go personally, but sent Yahya as a stand-in. As a stand-in for Uday, he underwent 9 assassinations.
Ye Haiya as a stand-in, but also a beautiful woman around the knee, luxury car money has everything, front and back hugs, full of scenery. But he lived in constant fear of the unknown, both for fear of dying of assassination and for fear that Uday would kill him. For a long time, Yahya suffered from "split personality", and he once said:
"Uday stole my life, my future, my identity."
To be able to persecute everyone unharmed, Uday relied on nothing more than the power and status given by Saddam. The advantage of being the eldest son allowed him to win the starting line in inheriting his father's business. But winning the starting line does not mean that you are the big winner who laughs to the end.
The viewer can't help but ask: As the eldest son, who will be the obstacle in his smooth life? That's right, it was his half-brother Kusai.
The younger brother, Kusai, unlike his elder brother's open fire, should be more low-key and introverted, and his style of behavior is very similar to that of his father Saddam Hussein. The relationship between Uday and this brother is not good, first, the two have a thousand miles of difference in style, they don't like each other, Cussay has directly turned a cold face to his brother on many occasions, even family gatherings, and the other is a conflict of interest in inheriting the family business. Udai's life is about to take a sharp turn.
In October 1988, Uday repeatedly confronted and offended his father, and even shot and killed him at a celebration under the pretext of preemptively firing a gun to celebrate because he hated the personal bodyguards and "drug testers" who secretly unblocked his joints for his father. Enraged, Saddam Hussein ordered Uday to be confined for 40 days, giving him only a little water to drink each day, before being persuaded by the former king of Jordan to be released.
It is said that Saddam's two defecting sons-in-law were liquidated after returning from Jordan, and there is also a shadow of Uday in it. He was later deported for disrespecting the police during his "extravagant exile" in Switzerland.
In the decade since Iraq was under international sanctions, the people of the country are not happy, but Uday still lives a very elegant life, not only that, he used the privilege in his hands to smuggle oil and seize a large amount of national wealth.
Fierce, cruel, unscrupulous, extravagant – these words imposed on Udai are not entirely exaggerated by the Western media. Saddam Hussein's regime was internationally notorious because of him, and former President Saddam Hussein was very troubled by this ill-behaved eldest son. His "glorious deeds" pushed his father farther and farther away, and the balance in Saddam's heart began to tilt heavily toward his younger brother Kusai.
On December 18, 1996, Uday, who had many enemies, was seriously injured by an attempted assassination attempt by unknown forces while driving on Mansour Avenue. Although he saved his life, he was left with a lifelong disability, leaving serious sequelae. Since then, Uday has fallen in a struggle for power with his younger brother Kusai, and later excluded from the core of power.
After experiencing these things, ordinary people may give up on themselves. But Uday does not fall into this category. He continued to drink and smoke cigars, raise wild animals, rob women, and abuse. Soon he reached out to the National Assembly with the intention of returning to politics.
In early April 2000, Udai was elected to the National Assembly with 99.98% of the vote, which seemed to send a signal that Udai was returning to politics and seeking succession. But in mid-April, Saddam Hussein made it clear at a family meeting that Cussay would be his only heir.
Uday runs iraq's most important media outlet, the Babylonian Newspaper, as well as youth television. He often relied on these two major media outlets to express his political views. But his political views are not unified and systematic. Udai sometimes called for political openness, collaboration with other Arab states, and sometimes rhetoric about including Kuwait and other countries on Iraq's map. Some militarists later commented that Udai could not even see where Saddam's regime was going, and how could it make a difference in Arab politics.
In November 2002, Uday's right to transmit value to the outside world was quickly banned, not by villains, but by himself. Thanks to his naïve and repetitive political views, which always caused controversy in all walks of life, Saddam Hussein finally could not bear to suspend the Babylonian newspaper in order to maintain the regime for a long time.
In 2003, the US military launched the Iraq War, and Udai's fierce life was finally coming to an end.
After the US military captured Baghdad, Saddam Hussein and Udaikusai disappeared en masse, and a large number of armed forces could not search for it, becoming the "second laden". Uday ranks third in the wanted list of senior officials of Saddam's regime issued by the U.S. military in Iraq, behind Saddam Hussein and Qusay with a $15 million reward. After that, Saddam Hussein went to the residences of Uday and Qusai several times and held secret meetings with them.
Back to the beginning of the video, in 2003, on July 22, local time, Zaidan, a "speculator" who hated Udai to the bone, leaked the whereabouts of Udai and his brother Kusai to the US military in Iraq. After the US military who learned the news was correct and closely deployed, they attacked the villa where Udai was located. The exchange of fire lasted for 6 hours, including 200 elite troops of the Army Task Force, 101 Airborne Troops, Delta Unit, Navy SEAL Special Forces and CIA agents, using all the firepower including missiles! Finally, after the villa was bombed into ruins, 4 corpses were carried out.
The locals initially confirmed their identities and dragged out the four bodies, namely Udai, Kusai, Kusay's 14-year-old son Mstafa, and Udai's bodyguards. Later, he was sent to do DNA sample analysis to reconfirm the identity of the body.
The struggle for power between Uday and Kusai seems meaningless to look at the outcome. In the gunfire and explosions of the US military, the former "former princes" - 39-year-old Udai and 37-year-old Kusai died, and even the last blood line was killed together, leaving only the bodies dragged out to take pictures and make them public.
The Western media's description of Udai seems to be from the standpoint of the Iraqi people:
"The Iraqi people are finally relieved that Saddam's two most heinous sons will not regain power."
"Saddam Hussein alone is left now, and if he can be arrested or killed, it will contribute to Iraq's post-war stabilization and reconstruction."
Indeed, Iraq would be better off without Uday. And the countless tragedies he left behind in the world, with his death, the fall of Saddam's regime, all of which seem to have finally come to an end.