WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: A security force confiscated two precious Rolls Royce vehicles owned by Uday, the son of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a house north of al-Kut city on Sunday, a local security source in Wassit said."A security force raided a house in al-Zubaydiya area, (75 km) north of Kut, and confiscated two cars used to be owned by Uday Saddam Hussein," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The two Rolls Royce vehicles, $250,000 each, had been stolen during the chaos that swept Iraq right after the former regime was unseated in 2003," he added, not giving further details.
| I'd eventually turn them back in but I would have been awfully tempted to take a joyride or two ... |
Uday, Saddam's elder son, was killed along with his younger brother Qusay and his nephew Mostafa, by U.S. security forces after a brief violent gunfight in Mosul city on July 23, 2003. He ranked third on the U.S. pack of cards of wanted figures of the former regime.
| It's been 2,568 days since Uday was last capable of raping an innocent Iraqi woman. Let us thank the U.S. Army for making it so. |
Uday produced the newspaper Babel and a local Iraqi TV channel called "Al-shabab TV". He was briefly married to the daughter of Izzat Ibrahim al-Dori, who was Vice President and Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, but later divorced her.
| She's lucky to be alive ... |
It is also claimed that, as he grew older, Yahia underwent extensive plastic surgery to enhance his resemblance to Uday. After surviving eleven assassination attempts targeted at Uday, Yahia successfully fled Iraq in December 1991.
Yahia wrote a book detailing his life and the life he lived as Uday's body double in his book The Devil's Double. Bearing the same name, a movie is being filmed in Malta. Yahia's story never received much widespread media coverage until after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.