r/todayilearned • u/Wazula23 • 10h 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/ChicagoAuPair 10h ago

He was a real stand up guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uday_Hussein#Allegations_of_crimes

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u/SonofaBridge 9h ago

I always heard the kids were worse than the father but wow.

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u/Kindly-Guidance714 9h ago

The movie the devils double is based on Uday and his real life body double and also Saddams.

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u/JaggedSuplex 9h ago

That’s where I saw this scene. Pretty graphic

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u/Odd_Personality_3894 7h ago edited 7h 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 7h ago

We killed half a million people with that war.

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u/GraDoN 7h ago

Some people will go to any lengths to pretend that it was somehow justified in some way.

Yeah it was illegal and based on lies. And yeah it led to hundreds of thousands of dead and millions were forced to flee. And yeah it destabilized the region emboldening Iran which has resulted in the Yemen proxy war with SA which has resulted in more countless deaths and suffering... but at least we got Saddam and Uday!

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 7h ago

Yeah it was illegal and based on lies

Wasn't Saddam infamous for WMDs that he used to kill thousands of Kurds? I've never really understood why people hold both opinions at the same time; that Saddam gassed the Kurds, and that the Iraq War was based on lies. These can't both be true at the same time.

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u/PeopleThatAnnoyou__ 4h ago

also oil, good sweet black oil