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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Security forces in Saddam Hussein's hometown captured two of the ousted dictator's relatives, who allegedly were helping insurgents launch attacks in Iraq, the government said Monday. The two were identified as one-time Saddam bodyguard Marwan Taher Abdul Rashid and his cousin, Abdullah Maher Abdul Rashid — who also was the brother-in-law of Saddam's son, Qusai, state-run Iraqiya television reported. The two were captured March 8 in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown north of Baghdad, the government said in a statement. Abdullah Maher Abdul Rashid was strongly believed to have "used big amounts of money that he received from Qusai...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Torture equipment used by Saddam Hussein's slain son, Odai, to punish underperforming Iraqi athletes was displayed Saturday at a Baghdad sports stadium in advance of the opening of the Olympics next month in Athens.

An Oklahoma soldier stationed in Iraq hot-wired Odai Hussein's Lamborghini sport utility vehicle, military records say, and the soldier goes on to claim his action lured the son of the former Iraqi dictator into a U.S. trap. But the account from Spc. Jeremy Huhman of Enid, Okla., as passed along by his mother and Oklahoma U.S. Senate candidate Kirk Humphreys, differs on key points from the official version of the raid last July that killed Odai, 39, and brother Qusai, 37.

European Newspapers Criticize US Photos Of Saddam's Sons BERLIN (AP)--The U.S. decision to publish graphic photos of Saddam Hussein's two dead sons drew disapproval from European intellectuals and human rights groups Friday, with some critics accusing the U.S. of trying to deflect skepticism about its effort to rebuild Iraq. Newspapers across the continent ran the pictures of Odai and Qusai Hussein, their faces bloody and swollen after the brothers were trapped and killed inside a villa in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday. Front-page displays were rare, though, amid debate about the ethics of showing off the No. 2...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S. military showed reporters the bodies of Odai and Qusai Hussein on Friday and said each body contained more than 20 bullet wounds. The faces had been partly reconstructed to appear as lifelike as possible. The display of the bodies, seen by an Associated Press reporter, came after still photographs released Thursday failed to convince many Iraqi civilians the brothers were really dead. Odai's beard had been trimmed to the length he had worn it in life. Qusai's beard was shaved off and he had only a mustache -- his trademark. The faces appeared waxy...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s largest city was a war zone of sorts Tuesday night as gunfire ripped through the sky for about a half-hour. This time, however, most — if not all — of it came from Iraqis celebrating the news of the deaths of Odai and Qusai, the sons of Saddam Hussein. “All Iraqis are very, very happy about the news,” said Hussein Ali, a 33-year-old engineer sitting in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel. “If American troops capture or kill Saddam Hussein, then we’ll have a big celebration for that.” Firing weapons at events such as weddings and...

CAPTION: Odai Hussein, in 2000 and in a photo released by the U.S. military on July 24, 2003. CAPTION: Qusai Hussein, in 2001 and in a photo released by the U.S. military on July 24, 2003. CAPTION: An X-ray analysis of Odai Hussien's leg, which was injured in an assassination attempt in December 1996. The U.S. military said X-rays, dental records and four former members of Saddam's regime confirmed that the two dead were the ousted Iraqi leader's eldest two sons. CAPTION: X-rays of Odai Hussien's leg, which was injured in an assassination attempt in December 1996. The images...

Troops Didn't Know Brothers Were in Villa By NIKO PRICE and JAMIE TARABAY .c The Associated Press MOSUL, Iraq (AP) - It was 10 a.m. when the four Humvees pulled up outside the handsome villa on Shalalat Street and disgorged a party of U.S. soldiers. Over a bullhorn, they told the occupants to come out with their hands up. What followed was a firefight from the ground and air that reduced the comfortable villa to a smoking hulk. And only then did the troops find out how high the stakes had been: Their targets, they discovered, were Saddam Hussein's sons...

Pots and kettles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 23, 2003 7:15 p.m. Eastern © 2003 Universal Press Syndicate The Howard Dean campaign was forced to cancel events this week in response to events in Iraq. Donations to the Odai and Qusai Hussein Memorial Fund can be submitted directly to the Dean campaign. Dean responded to the passing of these martyrs to American jingoism by angrily announcing that the ends don't justify the means. This is a war we're talking about. Why don't the ends justify the means? (Note to the Democrats: Just because you defended Bill Clinton doesn't mean you have to...

Oday may have killed himself.

Soldiers Didn't Know They Were Fighting Saddam's Sons Until They Were Dead By NIKO PRICE JAMIE TARABAY Associated Press Writers The Associated Press Published: Jul 23, 2003 MOSUL, Iraq (AP) - It was 10 a.m. when the four Humvees pulled up outside the handsome villa on Shalalat Street and disgorged a party of U.S. soldiers. Over a bullhorn, they told the occupants to come out with their hands up. What followed was a firefight from the ground and air that reduced the comfortable villa to a smoking hulk. And only then did the troops find out how high the stakes...

Odai, Qusai Deaths Go Against U.S. Ban By GEORGE GEDDA, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - In theory, pursuing with intent to kill violates a long-standing policy banning political assassination. It was the misfortune of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons, Odai and Qusai, that the Bush administration has not bothered to enforce the prohibition. The brothers were killed during a six-hour raid Tuesday at a palatial villa in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul by U.S. forces acting on a tip from an informant. They ranked just below their father in the deposed regime. Odai, in particular, had...

World oil prices slumped today on news that two of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's sons had been killed in a fierce firefight, easing concerns about unrest in Iraq. New York's benchmark light sweet crude contract for delivery in August tumbled 1.59 dollars to 30.19 dollars a barrel. It was the last day of trade for the August contract. In London, the price of Brent North Sea crude oil for September delivery plunged 1.20 dollars to 27.49 dollars a barrel. Experts said the deaths of Saddam's sons tended to ease tensions and the possibility of interrupted oil supplies in Iraq....

Saddam: Bodies too 'shot up' to ID 22/07/2003 21:25 - (SA) Mosul, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were "very likely" killed on Tuesday when US soldiers stormed a house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, US military and Bush administration sources told Fox News. Sources at the Pentagon and within the Bush administration told Fox News that at least four "high-level" targets were killed inside the house, a large villa that belonged to one of Saddam's cousins. A senior administration official said the US is "90% to 95% certain" that Saddam's sons were among the dead....

U.S. officials are reasonably confident that two of the four Iraqis killed in a raid in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul were Saddam Hussein's two sons, Odai and Qusai Hussein, ABCNEWS has learned. Hours after a massive raid on a villa in Mosul, U.S. intelligence sources said they believed Saddam's two sons were inside the building. "We think we killed both of these guys," a senior intelligence official told ABCNEWS. While there was no official confirmation that Odai and Qusai Hussein were among the dead, ABCNEWS has learned that a senior former Iraqi official in U.S. custody had identified...

June 20, 2003, 8:12PM Captured aide says Saddam, sons fled to Syria Copyright 2003 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- A top lieutenant to Saddam Hussein has told U.S. interrogators that the Iraqi leader and his two sons survived the U.S.-led war in Iraq and that he himself had fled to Syria with the sons after the conflict, Defense Department officials said today. The officials said they had not yet assessed the accuracy of the claims by the aide, Abid Hamad Mahmud al-Tikriti, who was arrested in Iraq earlier this week. But they said the United States regarded the...

Odai Hussein Feared Father He Hoped To Replace - Report BEIRUT (AP)--Saddam Hussein's eldest son Odai was an alcohol swilling, pill popping womanizer who lived in fear of the man he dreamed of replacing as Iraqi president, a woman claiming to be his housemaid said in remarks broadcast Monday. The Iraqi woman, who identified herself only as "Jannat," told the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV station that she had worked in Odai's palace and her roles included preparing his drinks and food "and other services." She refused to elaborate. Odai, who is No. 3 on the U.S. list of 55 most wanted...

In a chilling hour, we go inside the sadistic world inhabited by Saddam Hussein's sons and hear firsthand accounts of how each man inherited a different, deadly side of his father. Uday, the megalomaniac whose only official job was head of the Iraq Olympic Committee, had athletes who performed poorly tortured. Qusay, the quiet schemer, rose to second in command behind his father by being slavishly loyal and completely brutal in overseeing the murder of opponents to the regime. TV 14 Next Airing: Sunday, May 25 @ 10pm ET/PT and Next Airing: Monday, May 26 @ 10pm ET/PT

U.S. Military Official in Iraq Says No Surrender Talks Taking Place for Saddam's Son Odai The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq May 23 — American military commanders are making it clear that the Bush administration will accept nothing less than unconditional surrender from Saddam Hussein's eldest son and, by implication, his top advisers and Baath Party members still hiding in Iraq.The commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, responding to a report that Odai Hussein might be seeking to surrender, said Friday he knew of no negotiations being held with envoys of Saddam's eldest son, and he insisted the U.S. military...

Documents Found by ABCNEWS Reveal a Lot About Saddam’s Regime B A G H D A D, Iraq, April 16 — The United States has failed to collect, or even protect, huge numbers of secret Iraqi intelligence files and documents that could help lead to some of Saddam Hussein's most loyal followers — and, perhaps, Saddam himself. Documents — most marked "top secret" — were discovered by ABCNEWS in the basements and offices of two luxurious, riverside Baghdad homes that were already looted of furniture and decorations. One of the houses was the personal home of Saddam's eldest son, Odai,...

Son of Saddam Odai Hussein Brutal to Iraqis, Behind Torture of U.S. Prisoners By Brian Ross Feb. 14 — It was a father's dilemma: What to do with a wayward son? In Saddam Hussein's case, the problem was his son Odai, who has been accused of murders and rapes too numerous to count. For Saddam, the answer was to put Odai in charge of Iraq's Olympic committee. In the 16 years since, Odai Hussein has more than lived up to his reputation for capricious cruelty. One example: 20/20 uncovered evidence linking Odai with the torture and interrogation of some...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- His personal zoo has lions, cheetahs and a bear. His storehouse has $1 million in fine wines, liquor and heroin. His house has Cuban cigars, cases of champagne and downloaded pictures of prostitutes. While most Iraqis suffered under the U.N. sanctions that drove their country into poverty, Saddam Hussein's eldest son Odai lived a life of fast cars, expensive liquor and easy women, a tour through his bombed house showed Monday. The walls of a gym were plastered with photographs of women downloaded from the Internet -- "the biggest collection of naked women I'd ever seen,"...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The Baghdad palace of Saddam Hussein's oldest son Odai is revealing more about his so-called "playboy" lifestyle. Looters stripped the palace of most valuables, but there was still ample evidence of Odai's extravagance. Reporters said they've seen pages of downloaded pornography, expensive liquor, cigars, guns and ammo magazines, and love letters from girlfriends. The palace itself is adorned with ornate gold and gilt fixtures, lighting and furniture. There were also some unusual discoveries in Odai's palace. In addition to finding a lot of liquor, electronics, Cuban cigars and porn -- U.S. soldiers say they found pictures of...

Saddam Son's Palace Has Zoo, Alcohol, Heroin, Nude Photos BAGHDAD (AP)--Odai Hussein's personal zoo has lions, cheetahs and a bear. His storehouse has $1 million of fine wines, liquors and heroin. His house has Cuban cigars, cases of champagne and downloaded pictures of prostitutes. While most Iraqis bent under the brunt of U.N. sanctions that drove their country into poverty, Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Odai, lived a life of fast cars, expensive liquor and easy women, a tour through his bombed house showed Monday. The walls of a gym were plastered with photographs of women downloaded from the Internet -...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops walked into a two-story house in an enclave of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party on Friday and discovered boxes of Italian pistols, Soviet-era Kalashnikovs and American-made rifles still wrapped in plastic, along with an inventory that said they belonged to the president's son, Odai.</p>

Weapons Cache for Saddam's Son Odai Found By CHRIS TOMLINSON .c The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. soldiers stumbled Friday upon the personal weapons cache of President Saddam Hussein's son Odai, finding boxes of assault rifles and dozens of ceremonial firearms in an abandoned house. The infantry company was searching through a Baath Party enclave when they made the discovery of Odai Hussein's collection inside the home. Many of the weapons were apparently already looted; there were hundreds of Beretta 9mm pistol boxes, but no pistols. But not everything was gone. There were dozens of gold- and silver-plated...

Posted on Fri, Mar. 28, 2003 THE BRUTES OF BAGHDAD IF SADDAM RAISED HIS TWO SONS TO BE AS VICIOUS HE IS, THEY'RE DOING HIM PROUD By BARBARA LAKER lakerb@phillynews.com ONE IS a sadistic playboy who rapes 12-year-old girls and tortures friends for amusement. The other is a methodical, ruthless enforcer who kills for political power, then has his victims buried in mass graves. They are Saddam Hussein's infamous sons - two evil brothers with blood on their hands. The Brutes of Baghdad. As bombs and missiles chisel away at their father's regime, it's unknown if Odai and Qusai Hussein...

CAIRO, Egypt March 18 — When President Bush gave Saddam Hussein until Wednesday to leave Iraq, he told him to take his sons with him.While their styles are dramatically different, Odai Hussein, 39, and his younger brother, Qusai Hussein, 37, both have reputations for being as brutal and ruthless as their father.Qusai Hussein, whom Saddam is believed to be grooming as his successor, is a low-key, soberly dressed, ambiguous figure who moves in his father's shadow. His nickname among Iraqis is Mr. Snake.His more widely known, flamboyant brother Odai Hussein calls himself Abu Sarhan, an Arabic euphemism for a wolf.Characteristically,...