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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Uday was known for expressing his brutality towards the citizens of Iraq, from raping many women, torturing the Iraqi football team with punishments such as amputations, and killing his father's bodyguard at a party for being introducing to his father to his second wife, among other brutal crimes. As the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, he oversaw the torture of athletes working under him, with methods such as flogging, kicking concrete balls, and being dragged into a gravel pit with sewage. He would often crash weddings to rape and sometimes murder brides even though he could | As a child, he and his brother Qusay would often oversee executions with their father. Uday was known for expressing his brutality towards the citizens of Iraq, from raping many women, torturing the Iraqi football team with punishments such as amputations, and killing his father's bodyguard at a party for being introducing to his father to his second wife (with Egyptian president [[Hosni Mubarak]], who was a guest, witnessed), among other brutal crimes. As the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, he oversaw the torture of athletes working under him if that were considered unsatisfactory, with methods such as flogging, kicking concrete balls, and being dragged into a gravel pit with sewage. He would often crash weddings to rape and sometimes murder brides even though he could have easily charmed any woman he wanted with his vast wealth and power. He was even banished to Switzerland by his own father a few times for his brutality. He also forced Latif Yahya, an Iraqi Kurdish classmate of his who bore a slight resemblance to him, to become his body double, in which he would often mistreat him, from putting him in solitary confinement when he refused to become his body double to even shooting at him when a woman interested in Uday became more interested in Latif. His father Saddam was said to have destroyed some of Uday's car collection because he was to brutal even for him. | ||
In December of 1996, when he was driving, he was ambushed by gunmen and shot, giving him permanent injuries such as a limp. He was about to be heir of [[Saddam Hussein]] until Saddam decided Qusay was heir, due to the brutality of his actions, even for his father. He was gunned down by American troops along with his brother [[Qusay Hussein]] in 2003. To prove that they were dead, the US Military relaxed pictures of their bodies. After his death at the hands of American forces, celebratory gunfire could be heard all over Iraq for several nights. | In December of 1996, when he was driving, he was ambushed by gunmen and shot, giving him permanent injuries such as a limp. He was about to be heir of [[Saddam Hussein]] until Saddam decided Qusay was heir, due to the brutality of his actions, even for his father. He was gunned down by American troops along with his brother [[Qusay Hussein]] in 2003. To prove that they were dead, the US Military relaxed pictures of their bodies. After his death at the hands of American forces, celebratory gunfire could be heard all over Iraq for several nights. |