Uday and Qusay, the notorious evil spawn sons of former Iraqi thug dictator president Saddam Hussein who were killed in Mosul in July 2003, were denied entry into Syria while trying to escape the US Army, the London-based Arabic daily Al Hayat newspaper reported yesterday. The paper quoted the wife of one their bodyguards who claimed that her husband was very close to the Hussein family. "Saddam loved him to a high extent. He could tell him all his secrets," she said in an interview to the newspaper.
| "And then he tried to have my husband killed, but he really loved him!" |
The wife, who didn't want to have her name published, said that her husband had been detained one month before the two brothers were killed. According to Al Hayat, the bodyguard proposed to cross the border into Syria while US forces were searching for Saddam and his two sons.
| "I'll go ahead first and make sure it's safe for youse guys. Sure, sure, I'll come back and get you, don't worry." |
The bodyguard's wife told Al Hayat that she was also in the convoy and that they received help from some Syrian fighters and Saddam sympathisers, but that the Syrian authorities asked the convoy to return to Iraq. "Someone informed the US forces about my husband and he was arrested one day after coming back from a visit to Syria," the woman said. The US troops found two forged passports at her place so they found out about the attempt to get into Syria. Saddam's sons were righteously killed by US troops one month later. |