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After months of recovering from an attempt on his life that put eight bullets in his left side, Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, was ready to party. At his first outing in 1998, at the posh Jadriyah Equestrian Club, he used high-powered binoculars to survey the crowd of friends and family from a platform high above the guests. He saw something he liked, recalls his former aide Adib Shabaan, who helped arrange the party. Uday tightened the focus on a pretty 14-year-old girl in a bright yellow dress sitting with her father...
...long been known in Iraq and beyond that as venal and vicious as Saddam Hussein was, Uday was worse. Now that the regime has fallen, the quotidian details of the son's outrages are beginning to emerge. With Iraqis free to speak more openly, it has become clear that the malignancy of Uday's behavior actually exceeded that of his reputation. At the same time, new hints are emerging about his psychological state. Uday, now 38, suffered not only from the anguish of Saddam's disapproval--the son was too unprincipled even for his father--but also often from physical...
...post-Saddam strategic reality would likely increase the temptation for Iran to go nuclear - a cursory glance at the fates of Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Jong-il would certainly help any hard-liner trying to argue the virtues of a nuclear deterrent. But if such a program exists, it would be conducted under extensive camouflage, for the Iraq example also proves that there's nothing like an alleged WMD program to make a case for regime-change...
...assault-weapons ban on anarchic Baghdad (even as Representative Tom DeLay of Texas recently let slip that Congress won't renew one at home). It was disclosed that the Central Intelligence Agency is trying to figure out, among other things, how we came to the questionable conclusion that Saddam Hussein possessed massive stocks of illegal weapons. The CIA will surely look into the activities of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, an intelligence nodule created by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, to provide a hawkish counterforce against the other spy services. The Pentagon's extreme threat...
Serbia was perfectly poised to lend a hand. Throughout the 1990s Yugoslav contractors defied U.N. sanctions and did business in Iraq: an outfit named Yugoimport built the Baath Party headquarters and at least five underground bunkers for Saddam Hussein. It also sold arms. That trade was finally shut down last year, after the U.S. blew the whistle and the recently assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic came clean...