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The U.S. has captured 32 of the 55 Iraqis in our “deck of cards.” Now Jason Burke writes in the U.K. Observer newspaper that we may have caught the Ace of Spades?Saddam himself. Scientists are carrying out DNA tests on human remains that may be those of Saddam Hussein and his son Uday. The remains are from a convoy of luxury SUVs that were struck last week by soldiers, after intelligence agents intercepted a phone call that revealed that Saddam and Uday were travelling in the Western Desert near Syria.
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The Iraqi newspaper Sada Al Watan says a unit of the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division captured Saddam Hussein, his son Qusay and his secretary Abid Hamid Mahmoud Tikriti in a farmhouse in Tikrit earlier this week, but U.S. Central Command only admits capturing the secretary. The newspaper says they were flown to an unknown destination for interrogation.

The Al Ra Al Aam newspaper in Kuwait quoted a U.S. official as saying that the U.S. wouldn’t have been able to keep Saddam’s capture a secret. Iraqi opposition sources say Saddam’s older son Uday has contacted the U.S. regarding terms of his surrender.
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If you thought Saddam’s art collection was wild, check out his son Uday’s videos. Newsweek’s Colin Soloway watched 100 of the tapes and reports on what he saw.

Most of the video tapes found in Uday’s bombed-out palace are not pornography, and they’re not amateur either–they’re professionally produced vanity videos of Uday doing things like playing with his pet lions or displaying injuries from a 1996 assassination attempt. Some tapes are marked “private,” and show drunken parties at his mansion. These seem to have been shot secretly from behind a two-way mirror, and show Uday making out with two women at once on his couch, while one of his friends chases another woman around the room.
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U.S. artist Rowena Morrill says she was shocked to discover her paintings in Saddam Hussein’s private collection. Her sister first spotted them on the TV news, hanging on the wall of one of Saddam’s palaces, and immediately called Morrill. “I was utterly stunned,” she says. “?I’ve always known that once I sell a piece it could end up anywhere. Of course I never dreamed that it would end up in a place like that.”
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