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cards depicting the most wanted men.
There was a $15million reward posted
on the head eif each son, both of
whom were key lieutenants for the deposed
president. Qusay, 37,the youriger,
calmer brother, was in charge of his father's
security detail, the Special Re-.
publican Guards. Uday, 39,an infamo~
playboy feared for his sad!stic bent, organized
the Fedayeen Saddam out of
pardoned criminals who would be given
a new lease on life if they :weqJdJdlJ ..
for the regime. .. .. .
The death of the two sons, analysts
believe, would be the biggest develop-:,~
ment in endiJ;lg Ba'ath Party rulesince:
Baghdad fell on April 9. Some say they
believe it might diminish butnot eliminate
âttacks that have killed around 40
U.S. soldiers since Bush declared the.
end ofmajor combat on May 1.
Although some loyalists to Saddameither
paid or prodded by his sons,- are
suspected of killing .Americans. t\}e at-
The AssocIated
Press
taw are also likely being. carrieëJ,oùt by
Iraqis op~sed to the very idea of OCCU1'
pation, tribal members bent on.reveng~
for dead relatives and fanatics who blf;.'
lieve Islam is at war With the West.. ..
Even before the identity of the bodieS
was confinned, gunfll'e er~pted a~
Baghdad Tuesday night as Iraqis celebrated
the news, and the night sky was
illuminated with tracer fire.
, "I don't think it is possible, but if it is
true, they deserved whatever happened
to them," said Omar Salam, 22, eating
his dinner at a roadside café with gunfireerupting
all around him.
Most Iraqis will breath a sigh of relief
that Saddam's two most likely successors
have been eliminated. It would
leave the deposed president as the main
target of the continuing manhunt.
In Mosul, il retired army general, Ali
Jajawi, who lives 100 m~, or 330 feet,
from the house, said that on Tuesday
morning that people saw the house's
Uday's erratic brutality
too much for Saddam
. owner, NaWaf aI-Zaydan, and his ,son
SbaJUaninAmerican vehicles. It was diffiètilt
for people to get close to theID;obut
some managed to ask some questions.
PeOple asked' him what 'bad hapPened
and Zaydan told them that Uday and
Q!1say were inside the house. He had
gone to bring breakfast for them, he said,
and the Americans arrested him.
Neighbors found it strange because
he was smoking in the car and appeared
totally calm, leading many to believe
that he had turned the men in, said Farhan
Sharafani, a member of the Kurdish
parliament.' .
Both Nawaf and his brother, Salah al-
Zaydan, had been prosecuted by the re-
, gime under a law promulgated several
years ago makiOg it illegal to claim kinship
with the president's. family., They
both claimed they were part of the Albu
Nasser tribe and were jailed for it, said
Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar, a member of Iraq's
Governing Council from Mosul
The New Yom 11mes
.with a 'cane. His younger brother,
Q!1say,was instead groomed to sucwill
and tortured witli zeaL But his. . ceed Saddam, worsening an already
tendency toward erratic brutality uneasy relationship between the two
BAGHDAD: Uday Hussein, the eld- even exasperated Saddam, who tem- brothers.
est son of Saddam Hussein, con- ' porarily banished Uday to Switzer- Much of Uday's notoriety abroad
trolled propaganda in Iraq and al- land after the son killed one ofhis fa- ~temmed from his position as head of
legedly oversaw the torture of ther's favorite bodyguards in 1988. . the National Iraqi Olympic Commitathletes
who failed to meet expecta- The bodyguard, a young man tee, which was accused of torturing
tions. named Kamel Gegeo, arranged trysts and jailing athletes who did not per-
The 39-year-old is .No.3 on the list .for Saddam - notably with one wom- form as strongly as hoped.
of 55 most-wanted people from the. an who later became Saddam's . While millions of Iraqis suffered
former Iraqi regime - only Saddam ,.second wife: Worried that his father's dire poverty, Uday lived a life of ease.
and Uday's younger brother, Q!1say, .'relationship with the woman could '. When U.S. troOps captured his manranked
higher. ' threaten his own position as heir, ',: sion in~agh?ad, they found a person-
As head of the Fedayeen Saddam Uday allegedly beat Gegeo to death. al ZOOWlthh9ns ~nd cheetahs, an uJ?--
paramilita!,y unit, Uday helped his Uday had once been a strong candi-. d~rgro~nd parkmg garage, for. h~
father eliminate opponents and exert date to succeed his father, but he was col1~on o! lu~ry cars, CubancIiron-fisted
control over Iraq's 24 mil- badly wounded in 1996 in an assassi- gars Wlth.h.lS~me on ~e wrap~r
lion people. Uday was elected to Par- .. nation attempt by gunmen who and $1 million ID fine Wl~es and, h-
lialilent in 1999 with a reported 99 . opened fire as he drove his Porsche ,quor. They also found herolJ~. .
percent of the vote, but he rarely at- through Baghdad. . The house was adorned Wlth pamttended
Parliament sessions. '. The attack left Uday With a bullet .. IngS of naked. women and photo-
Iraqi exiles say U~y-murdered at .in his spine that forced hi,~ to walk ,graphs of proStitutes.
Qusay inspired fear
as security force leader
The Assodatéd Press . The: 37-year-öfd ~say beaded
,~q's i~telligence and security ser-
BAGHDAD: . Q!1say Hussein, Sad~ ''Vices, hiS father~s .personal-security
dam . Hussein's younger, $On, held fo!cJ~,and the RepUblican Guard, an
wide-ranging powers over Iraq's se- ehte force of 80,000 soldiers respon-'
.curity apparatus, making him one of sible for defending Baghdad.
.the most feared men in the country. He stayed out of the public eye and
Q!1sayis No.2 on the U.S.-led coali-' led a substantially more subdued.
tion forces' list of the SS most wanted. private life than his older brother
,people from the former Iraqi regime, Uday, who collected luxury cars by
b.ehind only Saddam himself. He is th.e~undreds and is said to have had 11:'
.also on a Bush administration list of, habit of ordering his guards to snatch
former Iraqi leaders who could be; young women off the street in order,
tried for war crimes. , . .. , to~pe thefll. . ..
, .
Qiisay was far more trusted by his
father .nd appeared to be his heir before
the regime crumbled. In televised
meetings with top security and ,
military men. Qusa~ was seate~ next
to his father, weanng~well-tadored
suits and noting his father's every .
word. . .
An exiled dissident said that only
Q!1say and Sa~dam's private ~ec~~
tary, Abid Hamid ~ahmud al-Tlkriti,
who wàs captured m June, were kept '
informed of Saddam's whereabouts.
Uday' was thought to b~ too re