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| Udayâs home movies |
| 2004-02-19 |
| 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 |
| #14 You want WMD? I can give you three. We pulled one out of a hole and threw him in a cell. The other 2, we put in holes. They won't be bothering anyone anymore. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-2-19 8:02:43 PM |
| #13 Bush was right. |
| Posted by: Ricky Vandal 2004-2-19 7:00:46 PM |
| #12 Somebody ought to post this at moveon.org. But I doubt they'd understand the significance. There is an old saying amongst the left, "we have no enemies on the left". I guess it still must be true |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2004-2-19 6:39:39 PM |
| #11 JFM, You are of course right. Dispite what they *say* the left doesn't give a rats ass about the people who are suffering. they only want to look 'caring' and 'compassionate'. "Oh..you might get a few civilians while stopping a dictator from getting a few million civilians -- mustn't do that!". These are the kind of people who, when they see a woman being raped by a thug, would either join in or try to prevent anyone from stopping it. "After all you wouldn't want to interfear with the rapist's sexual freedom....". |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-2-19 6:02:28 PM |
| #10 One of the most repugnant thing in the so-called left is how indifferent they are to the fate of Blacks, Arabs, Vietneames and other Their marches, sit-ins and activism aren't about the suffering people in third world, they are about the leftist flattering his ego by playing the protesting hero and shocking daddy. And third worlders can burst for what they really care. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-2-19 5:36:42 PM |
| #9 ....he started to look to women who are 11, 12,â says Janabi. In civilized cultures, asshole,11 and 12 year old girls are referred to as children. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-2-19 5:23:15 PM |
| #8 Bartender! Another round on me for every soldier involved in arranging Uday's last day on earth! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-2-19 4:55:01 PM |
| #7 Lil, Perhaps he wasn't toilet trained the right way when he was a toddler.... I was sickened myself in how the left's panties got all in a knot when these two got their well-deserved dirt nap. What the fuck were they (the left) planning on doing? Give Iraq to Saddam's son's in hope they would do a better job? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-2-19 4:24:41 PM |
| #6 Damn. Dar had made a comment on another post about where is Antiwar today. I'd love to hear him comment on how Uday is not a bad guy, and how he just wasn't breastfed enough as a baby and blahblahblah. |
| Posted by: Lil Dhimmi 2004-2-19 3:49:10 PM |
| #5 The left focus on their heaven |
| Posted by: john 2004-2-19 3:28:17 PM |
| #4 "This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end." (Uday, 6 April 2003) |
| Posted by: Garrison 2004-2-19 3:26:49 PM |
| #3 i too remember the lefties out rage when Uday and Quasa were killed, i found it disgusting how they tried to justify leaving people like this in power too |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-19 3:14:29 PM |
| #2 Amen, Robert. And don't forget how upset the same Leftist crowd was that our soldiers didn't take Uday and Q-Tip alive. Oh the boo-hooing that went on. If Saddam had been left in power, these psycopathic sons would surely have seceded him and perpetuated the same, if not worse, horrible régime. We done good. |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2004-2-19 3:08:22 PM |
| #1 And remember peaceniks -- these are the people you would have left in power if you had your way. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-19 3:04:11 PM |