Saddam Hussein
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Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the Iraq war. He previously served as the vice president
Official portrait, 1979
Saddam in his youth as a shepherd in his village, near Tikrit, 1956
Saddam and other Ba'athists posing on top of a tank after a successful coup in February 1963
Saddam and al-Bakr, de jure president of Iraq alongside Hafez al-Assad of Syria at an Arab League summit in Baghdad in November 1978
Uday Hussein
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Uday Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician, military leader, and businessman. He was the eldest son of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his first wife Sajida Talfah. He was known for his excessive
Saddam Hussein
…the war, but none were authenticated. At various times he released audio tapes promoting popular resistance to his ousting. On 22 July 2003, his sons Uday and Qusay and 14-year-old grandson Mustafa were killed in a three-hour gunfight with the U.S. forces in Mosul. Upon their deaths, he commemorated them…
Uday Hussein in 2000
Squad of Al-Rasheed in the 1984–85 season. Uday Hussein and Qusay Hussein are in the top row, middle.
A family portrait of Saddam Hussein's family. Uday is the bearded man seen standing in the middle.
House of Uday and Qusay in Mosul, Iraq, destroyed by U.S. forces, 31 July 2003