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Uday Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti ( (who was the President of Iraq ) and his first wife, Sajida Talfah . He was for several years seen as the Heir Apparent of his father. He produced the newspaper '' Babel '' as well as the youth Radio Station Voice Of Iraq (which ran American pop songs). His alleged erratic behavior and troubled relationship with his father and brother were well-publicized in the media both before and after he was killed at age 39 by U.S. Military Forces following the 2003 Invasion Of Iraq . He was briefly married to the daughter of Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri , former vice president and deputy chairman of Saddam's Revolutionary Command Council {Link without Title} . BIOGRAPHY Although his status as Saddam Hussein's eldest son once made him the prospective successor to his father, Uday fell out of favor with Saddam for his extravagance and recklessness. In October 1988 , at a party thrown in the honor of the wife of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt , Uday beat and stabbed to death his father's personal Valet and Food Taster , Kemal Hana Gegeo . Gegeo had recently introduced Saddam to a beautiful, younger woman, Samira Shahbandar , who later became Saddam's second wife. Uday took this as an insult to his mother (his father's first cousin). While Drunk , Uday carried out the murder coolly and coldly, bludgeoning Gegeo repeatedly in front of horrified guests before finishing him off with a Steak Knife . Mubarak later called Uday a " Psychopath ." As punishment for the murder, Hussein briefly imprisoned his son. As a result of personal intervention from King Hussein of Jordan , Hussein released Uday, banishing him to Switzerland as the assistant to the Iraqi ambassador there. He was expelled by the Swiss government after he threatened to stab someone in a restaurant. Hussein later made Uday the head of the Olympic committee, and later, the head of one of Saddam's security organizations. On December 12 , 1996 , Uday was seriously injured in an Assassination attempt. It has been speculated that the attempt was made on the orders of his younger brother Qusay . Hit by eight bullets while driving his Porsche, Uday was at first thought to be paralyzed. Instead, he recovered his ability to walk with the aid of a Cuban medical team, albeit with a limp. Despite surgeries, a bullet remained lodged in his spine. As a result of the attempted assassination and Uday's subsequent disabilities, Saddam gave Qusay more powers and, in 2000 , designated Qusay as his heir. ]] On March 17 2003 , US President George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein and his two sons 48 hours to leave Iraq, or face war. Uday sarcastically responded to the ultimatum by demanding Bush and his family leave the United States . A report on March 20 , 2003 by ABC news made several allegations against Uday:
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DEATH strikes the side of a house of Uday and Qusay Hussein in Mosul, Iraq, July 22 2003 ]] On July 22 , 2003 , troops of the American 101st Airborne , aided by U.S. Special Forces , killed Uday, Qusay and Qusay's fourteen year old son Mustapha during a raid on a home in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul . Acting on a tip from an unidentified Iraqi, a special forces team attempted to apprehend the inhabitants of the house and after US troops had hot-wired Uday´s Lamborghini-jeep he revealed himself and a gun fight started. After being fired on, the special forces withdrew and called for backup. As many as 100 American troops, later aided by Apache Helicopter s and an A-10 "Warthog" Gunship , surrounded and fired on the house. After three hours of battle, the soldiers entered the house and found four dead, including the brothers, and three others wounded. 2003 ]] According to news reports (including the BBC and the New York Times ), many of the people of Baghdad celebrated word of the brothers' death by firing rounds into the air. (It should be noted that the firing of rounds is very common at funerals in Arab culture, and could signal either celebration or mourning.) The praise for Uday's and Qusay's deaths was not universal, however, with a correspondent for Al Jazeera calling the demise of the brothers a "crime" carried out "in cold blood." On July 23 , 2003 the American command said that it had conclusively identified two of the dead men as Saddam Hussein 's sons, using dental records. They also announced that the informant, possibly the owner of the house, would receive the combined $30 million award on the pair. On ). The U.S. military command stated that photos of brothers were released to combat widespread rumors in Iraq that the brothers are still alive and the whole episode is a hoax. Some criticized the U.S. for creating a double standard in releasing the photos of the dead brothers, given that the Bush Administration condemned Saddam Hussein for releasing photos of American dead during the conflict. The U.S. military answered these criticisms by pointing out that these men were no ordinary dead combatants, and that confirmation of the deaths would bring "closure" to the Iraqi people. Uday was buried in a cemetery in the Tikrit area alongside Qusay and the latter's son. He was the Ace of Hearts on the Most-wanted Iraqi Playing Cards . The owner of the house where the brothers were killed was provided with U.S. citizenship and thereby allowed to depart from Iraq. In a likely revenge attack, his brother was killed in 2004 by unknown assassins. Uday used several , the spokesman for the U.S. Treasury Department . EXTERNAL LINKS
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