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Udayâs home movies
Edited for brevity.There may be doubts that weapons of mass destruction will ever be found in Iraq, but 60 Minutes II found some Hussein home movies that leave little doubt of the familyâs violence and repression. 60 Minutes II decided to show the revealing home movies to a one-time Hussein family insider, a man named Abbas al Janabi. When he saw them, he agreed to tell us stories he had never told before -- terrible stories that show why he feared Saddamâs sons more than he feared Saddam himself. Abbas al Janabi managed to avoid being killed by defecting to Great Britain. He had been a key player in Uday Husseinâs inner circle for 15 years, serving as Udayâs press secretary and editor of one of the newspapers he controlled. Despite the capture of Saddam, and the deaths last summer of Uday and Qusay, Janabi is still terrified by the Hussein family â and Uday in particular. âHe is sadist, in fact. He enjoyed torturing people,â says Janabi. âThere is no question I have seen him torturing people, laughing, enjoying this many times.â Janabi says one of Udayâs favorite tortures was falaqua. One video, which is very hard to watch, shows what falaqua is: a soldier being beaten on his feet. Uday was fond of using falaqua â with a baseball bat -- on his soccer players when his team lost a game. Uday was always on the prowl for women, as was shown in another video that 60 Minutes II found in Baghdad. Janabi says he saw Uday abuse alcohol and drugs, and he says Uday drugged women who turned him down so he could rape them. âWhen he became 30, he started to look to women who are 11, 12,â says Janabi. âBelieve me, believe me. I know what Iâm talking about.â Some of the young girls, Janabi says, were daughters of cabinet ministers and government officials. Just as Saddam himself used to do, Janabi says, Uday raped them and videotaped his actions so he could terrorize and control their parents. Did he have any respect for women? âTo my knowledge, no. Even not to his mother. Even not to his teacher,â adds Janabi. One of Udayâs women teachers, Janabi told us, acted as his pimp, recruiting young girls for him. He added that Uday ordered seven of his guards to rape that teacher and kill her husband and son after she told a friend what she had been doing. More at link... Posted by: Dar 2004-02-19 |
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