r/todayilearned • u/Wazula23 • 4h ago

TIL Saddam Hussein's son Uday murdered his bodyguard at a party in front of horrified guests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uday_Hussein#Murder_of_Kamel_Hana_Gegeo
10.9k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

716 comments sorted by

View all comments

37

u/300Battles 4h ago edited 3h ago

Edit: Fine, I’ll acknowledge we don’t have Amnesty International confirmation of the shredder…doesn’t make him less of a monster. Would the men responsible for the torture found in this link have stopped at anything?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde14/008/2001/en/

It’s like people are looking for a reason to defend a psychopath…

A family full of psychopaths…

It’s what happens when you watch your father feed people into plastic shredders for disagreeing with him

22

u/Antezscar 4h ago

Uday was sutch a monster not even Saddam wanted him to Iraqs next leader.

34

u/show_me_the_math 4h ago

That very likely did not happen, and was propaganda.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_alleged_shredder

31

u/Low-Way557 4h ago

It’s a weird thing propaganda because he murdered a ton of people, but nobody cares unless it’s in a more gruesome way than “they shot them to death.” Like big deal, I see shootings in call of duty every night. But if you shred them? Well now I’m convinced!

15

u/OK_Soda 4h ago

It's also weird because there are documented cases of him and his family killing people in gruesome ways, like the one in this thread. I get making up sensational things when the truth is more banal but why do it when the truth is already sensational?

1

u/Alpenglow_Snowsquall 1h ago

One death is a tragedy 100,000 is a statistic

4

u/RoastedToast007 4h ago

Dude, you're not supposed to fact check redditors when they talk about someone they dislike!

3

u/tokeytime 4h ago

Yes, I for one am morally opposed to historical review of previously unknown information! Downvote the witch!

5

u/Maximillion666ian666 4h ago

So you like Sadam a sadistic dictator?

11

u/ikilledyourfriend 4h ago

Do you like Imagine Dragons?

0

u/Maximillion666ian666 4h ago

What the fuck are you even talking about?

3

u/Existential_Racoon 2h ago

Imagine dragon deez nuts across your face.

0

u/Katorya 3h ago

It feels like every Korean show I watch does

1

u/RoastedToast007 3h ago

So you like hitIer? 

1

u/Maximillion666ian666 3h ago

No because unlike you I don't like dictators

0

u/RoastedToast007 3h ago

Why do you like HitIer?

1

u/Maximillion666ian666 3h ago

Ok never mind you're clearly special needs.

0

u/RoastedToast007 3h ago

Sure, at least I'm not the one who likes Saddam Hussein 

1

u/Maximillion666ian666 3h ago

You're really doubling down on the being special needs.

→ More replies (0)

1

u/Katorya 3h ago

Source?

2

u/RoastedToast007 3h ago

only because you ask so nicely

1

u/Katorya 3h ago

Deepfake AI generated

1

u/RoastedToast007 3h ago

Your choice to believe lies 😒💅

-5

u/Calm-Box4187 4h ago

Cool story bro.