Uday Hussein
Uday Saddam Hussein (June 18th, 1964 – July 22nd, 2003) was the son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and the older brother of Qusay Hussein. He also served as the inagural commander of the Fedayeen Saddam death squad.
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Uday was his father's designated successor until he sustained severe injuries in a failed assassination attempt in 1996. Following the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, he was killed alongside his brother Qusay and nephew Mustapha by an American task force after a prolonged gunfight in Mosul.
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've 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.
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 in biographal movies such as "The Devils Double" and in "House of Saddam". He was gunned down by American troops along with his brother Qusay Hussein in 2003. After his death at the hands of American forces, celebratory gunfire could be heard all over Iraq for several nights.
Uday Hussein is a very different kind of evil from most horrible people. Most evil people like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin had a set goal in mind and would do whatever it took to try and accomplish that goal as quickly as possible. Uday however would make a goal for himself and then go out of his way to accomplish that goal as evilly as he could possibly do so. Uday simply wanted to be evil for the sake of evil and it amused him. An example of his pure evilness would be his father, Saddam Hussein himself, one of the worst dictators of all time, once said the main reason why Qusay Hussein would inherit the dictatorship after his death instead of Uday, was that Saddam said that Uday was "too cruel to be given that kind of power" and Uday would've most likely started wars with other countries just for fun.