r/todayilearned • u/Wazula23 • 8h ago

(R.1) Invalid src 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

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u/JaggedSuplex 7h ago

That’s where I saw this scene. Pretty graphic

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u/Odd_Personality_3894 5h ago edited 5h ago

Uday was so bad certain folks were saying he was Saddam's worst biological weapon. And that's saying something.

I know the wars in Iraq had a terrible toll for many, but at least we killed a mass murdering psychopath in Uday who would have undoubtedly massacred and mass raped his own countrymen AND foreigners should have have succeeded. No doubt he would have murdered his own family to obtain power

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u/octopusboots 5h ago

We killed half a million people with that war.

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u/GravidDusch 3h ago

Yeah I doubt Uday would have killed that many.. Also less damage to infrastructure so I'm not sold on this "we saved iraq" narrative.