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Congressional Record—Senate S9747 July 23, 2003 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S9747 wonder how they are going to be able so he could rape them. The London-based prostitutes taken off the Internet, complete to afford rising college tuition, which human-rights group Indict said Odai ordered with handwritten ratings of each. in many cases has doubled in the last prisoners to be dropped into acid baths as There were bags and boxes of pills and couple of years. Look at the disabled punishment. medicines everywhere—ginseng sexual for- The Caligula-like Odai seemed proud of his tifiers, heartburn medication, the anti-de- who are being fired to cut health care reputation and called himself Abu Sarhan, pressant Prozac—and an Accu-Rite HIV insurance, and they are not being re- an Arabic term for ‘‘wolf.’’ Antibodies Screening Test Kit was in Odai’s hired and people are not reaching out But his tendency toward erratic brutality office. the hand to hire people with disabil- even exasperated Saddam, who temporarily Nearby was a domed house believed to be ities because of the rising cost of banished Odai to Switzerland after the the residence of Odai’s concubines, a bastion health insurance, and the pressures are younger Hussein killed one of his father’s fa- of bad taste with statuettes of couples in growing to cut Social Security and vorite bodyguards in 1988. foreplay, couches with fluffy pillows and a The bodyguard, a young man named Kamel swimming pool with a bar. Medicare as these deficits grow. Gegeo, arranged trysts for the Iraqi presi- Only an ideologue who thinks of dent—notably with one woman who later be- QUSAI HUSSEIN, YOUNGER SON OF SADDAM shrinking Government, whatever the came Saddam’s second wife. Worried that his BAGHDAD, IRAQ.—Qusai Hussein, Saddam cost, could possibly think we are on father’s relationship with the woman could Hussein’s younger son, held wide-ranging the right path. As Congressman threaten his own position as heir, Odai beat powers over the nation’s ruthless security SPRATT in the House has said of the Gegeo to death with a club in full view of apparatus that made him one of the most policies of this President and what the guests at a high-society party, according to feared men in Iraq. Congress is now following: some reports. Other reports said Odai killed Qusai is No. 2 on the U.S.-led coalition Gegeo with an electric carving knife. forces’ list of the 55 most wanted men from There seems to be no shame, no shock, and Odai has once been a strong candidate to the former Iraqi regime, behind only Saddam no solution. succeed his father, but he was badly injured himself. He is also on a Bush administration in 1996 in an assassination attempt by gun- We must reject these policies. We list of former Iraqi regime members who men who opened fire as he drove his red must reject the economic malpractice could be tried for war crimes. Porsche through Baghdad. The attack left of this administration and move back Quiet, handsome and every bit as brutal as Odai with a bullet in his spine that forced to economic sanity in our country. Saddam, the 37-year-old Qusai headed Iraq’s him to walk with a cane. Younger brother intelligence and security services, his fa- I yield the floor. Qusai was instead groomed to succeed Sad- ther’s personal security force and the Repub- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- dam, worsening already uneasy relations be- lican Guard, an elite force of 80,000 soldiers ator’s time has expired. Under the pre- tween the two brothers. responsible for defending Baghdad. vious order, the Senator from Ken- Odai owned Iraq’s most widely circulated He stayed out of the public eye and led a daily newspaper, Babil, which he used as a tucky is recognized. substantially more subdued private life than platform for regime propaganda, published f his older brother Odai, who collected luxury signed editorials full of bombastic rhetoric. cars by the hundreds and had a habit of or- THE DEATH OF QUSAY AND UDAY He also oversaw Al-Zawra, a weekly pub- dering his guards to snatch young women off HUSSEIN lished by the journalists union that he head- the street in order to rape them. Iraqis nick- ed, and owned the popular Youth TV. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, Much of Odai’s notoriety abroad stemmed named Qusai ‘‘The Snake’’ for his blood- normally in our country we don’t ap- from his position as head of the National thirsty but low-profile manner. plaud the death of anyone. We value Iraqi Olympic Committee, which was ac- Qusai was far more trusted by his father life greatly. But today we do indeed ap- cused of torturing and jailing athletes. and appeared to be his heir before the regime plaud the death, the removal, of two of The London-based human rights group In- crumbled. In televised meeting with top se- dict said the committee once made a group curity and military men, Qusai was seated the most vicious criminals who ever next to his father, wearing well-tailored lived. Yesterday we heard confirmation of track athletes crawl on newly poured as- phalt while they were beaten and threw some suits and dutifully noting his father’s every that the 101st Airborne—I can proudly of them off a bridge. Indict also said Odai ran word. say headquartered in Fort Campbell, a special prison for athletes who offended An exiled dissident told The Associated KY—in a raid on a house in Mosul, him. The International Olympic Committee Press that only Qusai and Saddam’s private killed Uday and Qusay Hussein, two of in Lausanne, Switzerland, said earlier this secretary, Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, the biggest monsters who ever walked year that it was investigating the allega- who was captured in June, were kept in- the face of the Earth. tions. formed of Saddam’s whereabouts. Odai was One defector told Indict that jailed soccer thought to be too reckless to be trusted with Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- such information. sent that two Associated Press obitu- players were forced to kick a concrete ball after failing to reach the 1994 World Cup Experts do not believe Qusai played a sig- aries be printed in the RECORD at this finals. Another defector said athletes were nificant role in the Gulf War of 1991. But he point, but I want to take a look at dragged through a gravel pit and then was a leading figure of terror in the con- those obituaries because I think they dunked in a sewage tank so infection would flict’s aftermath, using mass executions and tell you a lot about what this war was set in. torture to crush the Shiite Muslim uprising all about. Army officers also were fair game for after that war. There being no objection, the mate- Odai’s outbursts of violence. In 1983, Odai re- Qusai also helped engineer the destruction of the southern marshes in the 1990s, an ac- rial was ordered to be printed in the portedly bashed an army officer unconscious when the man refused to allow Odai to dance tion aimed at Shiite ‘‘Marsh Arabs’’ living RECORD, as follows: with his wife. The officer later died. Odai there. ODAI HUSSEIN, OLDEST SON OF SADDAM also shot an army officer who did not salute The marshes—roughly 3,200 square miles— BAGHDAD, IRAQ.—Odai Hussein, the mur- him. had provided the necessities of life for tens of derous and erratic oldest son of Saddam Hus- Things were hardly better on the family thousands of marsh dwellers for at least 1,000 sein, controlled propaganda in Iraq and al- front, where relations between Odai and his years. The area was destroyed through a legedly oversaw the torture of athletes who uncles were especially bad. Oadi reportedly large-scale water diversion project intended failed to perform. divorced the daughter of one uncle, Barzan to remove the ability of insurgents to hide The 39-year-old is No. 3 on the list of 55 Ibrahim Hasan, in 1995 after she complained there. most-wanted men from the former Iraqi re- of being beaten. Odai shot and wounded an- Qusai also oversaw Iraq’s notorious deten- gime—only Saddam and younger brother other uncle, Watban Ibrahim Hasan. Both tion centers and is believed to have initiated Qusai ranked higher. The three also are on a uncles were captured after the war and are in ‘‘prison cleansing’’—a means of relieving se- U.S. list of former regime members who the custody of U.S. coalition forces. vere overcrowding in jails with arbitrary could be tried for war crimes. While millions of Iraqis suffered dire pov- killings. As head of the paramilitary Fedayeen Sad- erty, Odai lived a life of fast cars, expensive Citing testimony from former Iraqi intel- dam paramilitary unit, Odai helped his fa- liquor and easy women. When U.S. troops ligence officers and other state employees, ther eliminate opponents and exert iron- captured his mansion in Baghdad, they found New York-based Human Rights Watch said fisted control over Iraq’s 25 million people. a personal zoo with lions and cheetahs, an several thousand inmates were executed at The eldest of Saddam’s five children, Odai underground parking garage for his collec- Iraq’s prisons over the past several years. was elected to parliament in 1999 with a re- tion of luxury cars, Cuban cigars with his Prisoners were often eliminated with a bul- ported 99 percent of the vote, but he rarely name on the wrapper, and $1 million in fine let to the head, but one witness told the Lon- attended parliament sessions.
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