06/14/2026
The Brutal Last 10.5 Hours of Qusay & Uday Hussein
When Baghdad fell in April 2003, most people assumed Saddam Hssein s sons Uday and Qusay would simply disappear or surrender. For months, it looked exactly like that. But then American forces received a single tip about a house on a quiet street in Mosul, and what unfolded over the next ten hours would shock everyone who witnessed it.
Saddam Hussein had built an entire system, and his two sons were a major part of it. Uday Hussein was born on June 18, 1964. As Saddam's oldest son, he grew up with power, money, and almost no consequences for his actions. He controlled the Iraqi Olympic Committee, the national football federation, and two newspapers.
On paper, he looked like a man involved in sports and culture. In reality, athletes who lost competitions were often taken to the basement of the Olympic headquarters on Palestine Street in Baghdad and tortured. The building contained iron bars, whips, and even a concrete pool used for punishment. Uday personally took part in some of these abuses.
His violence was often driven by impulse rather than politics. In December 1988, during a party on the banks of the Tigris hosted by Suzanne Mubarak, the wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Uday beat Kamel Hanna Gegeo to death with an electric carving knife and a cane....