{"id":209276,"date":"2025-09-20T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=209276"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:12:44","slug":"will-psycho-killers-operation-tapeworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/will-psycho-killers-operation-tapeworm\/","title":{"rendered":"Psycho Killers: Operation Tapeworm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-estimated-reading-time yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time: <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">12<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nature versus nurture. It\u2019s a debate as old as psychology. Are we what we are because of our genes, because of our environment, or some mysterious combination? Countless knowledgeable people have devoted their professional lives to pondering that simple question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Family-Portrait-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"family posing for photo\" class=\"wp-image-209392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Family-Portrait-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Family-Portrait-400x258.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Family-Portrait-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Family-Portrait-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Family-Portrait-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Family-Portrait.jpg 1972w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Qusay (top middle) and Uday (top right) Hussein look like pretty normal blokes. They aren&#8217;t. These two monsters just desperately needed killing. (Photo\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Arthur Guyton was born in 1919 in Oxford, Mississippi. His father was an ENT physician, and his mother was a physicist. Guyton was in his surgical residency when he was stricken with polio. Unable to perform surgery, Guyton devoted his extraordinary mind to the deep things of medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><h2>Table of contents<\/h2><ul><li><a href=\"#h-the-archetypes\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-psycho-killers-operation-tapeworm\" title=\"Psycho Killers: Operation Tapeworm\" data-level=\"2\">The Archetypes<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-assassination-attempts\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-psycho-killers-operation-tapeworm\" title=\"Psycho Killers: Operation Tapeworm\" data-level=\"2\">Assassination Attempts<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-operation-tapeworm\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-psycho-killers-operation-tapeworm\" title=\"Psycho Killers: Operation Tapeworm\" data-level=\"2\">Operation Tapeworm<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-monster-killing-101\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-psycho-killers-operation-tapeworm\" title=\"Psycho Killers: Operation Tapeworm\" data-level=\"2\">Monster Killing 101<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-doing-the-deed\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-psycho-killers-operation-tapeworm\" title=\"Psycho Killers: Operation Tapeworm\" data-level=\"2\">Doing the Deed<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-rest-of-the-story\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-psycho-killers-operation-tapeworm\" title=\"Psycho Killers: Operation Tapeworm\" data-level=\"2\">The Rest of the Story<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Arthur-Guyton-777x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Arthur Guyton\" class=\"wp-image-209393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Arthur-Guyton-777x1024.jpg 777w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Arthur-Guyton-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Arthur-Guyton-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Arthur-Guyton-768x1012.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Arthur-Guyton.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is Dr. Arthur Guyton. I had the privilege of meeting the man. He just wasn&#8217;t wired like the rest of us. We owe a great deal of modern medicine to his remarkable intellect. (Photo\/Public domain).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We lack the space to catalog that extraordinary guy\u2019s accomplishments. In addition to devising the world\u2019s first joystick-controlled wheelchair, the first motorized patient hoist, and a series of advanced orthotic braces, Guyton singlehandedly penned the standard textbook of medical physiology used by every reputable medical school on the planet. I was blessed to have him autograph my copy. Dr. and Mrs. Guyton had ten children, every last one of whom went on to become respected physicians in their own right. Theirs was a truly amazing family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 15 June 2013, 16-year-old Ethan Crouch killed four people while driving with a restricted license under the influence of drugs and alcohol. At his trial for intoxicated manslaughter, Crouch\u2019s attorneys actually argued that he deserved rehab rather than prison because he suffered from \u201caffluenza.\u201d They reasoned that the kid had never been taught any limits, so it wasn\u2019t his fault that he plowed his dad\u2019s late-model Ford F-350 into a crowd. Crouch eventually fled to Mexico with his wealthy facilitating mother but was apprehended. Nature versus nurture\u2014it\u2019s indeed a murky question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-archetypes\">The Archetypes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Uday and Qusay Hussein were the sons of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Uday, the elder, was seen as Saddam\u2019s heir apparent until he was badly injured in an assassination attempt. Both boys were born in Baghdad to Saddam\u2019s wife\/first cousin Sajida Talfah while the patriarch was in prison. The couple also had three daughters. Interestingly, in addition to his well-publicized forays into megalomania, Saddam also anonymously penned a best-selling romance novel titled &#8220;Zabibah and the King.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Uday-Hussein.jpg\" alt=\"Uday Hussein\" class=\"wp-image-209394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Uday-Hussein.jpg 922w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Uday-Hussein-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Uday-Hussein-146x150.jpg 146w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Uday-Hussein-768x790.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is Uday Hussein. This psycho guy was utterly unhinged. (Photo\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Uday and Qusay were both crazy, but they were two different flavors of crazy. Qusay was the more cerebral of the two. He married Maher Abd al-Rashid and fathered four children. Qusay killed methodically, institutionally, and, most typically, in the shadows. Thousands of political prisoners were murdered on his orders simply to free up space in Iraqi jails. By contrast, Uday was a much more flamboyant madman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uday Hussein was a true old-school psychopath. He derived personal joy from other people\u2019s suffering. Uday was a serial rapist who was granted unfettered institutional power. His henchmen roamed the streets of Baghdad, kidnapping attractive young women for his personal use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hussein.jpg\" alt=\"man giving speech \" class=\"wp-image-209400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hussein.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hussein-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hussein-117x150.jpg 117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The nut doesn&#8217;t fall far from the tree. This guy&#8217;s twisted spawn were some seriously sick tickets. (Photo\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Uday spent three days in medical school before dropping out. He then obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree in engineering and a doctorate in political science. However, there were rumors that his coursework was actually done by others in exchange for gifts, political favors, and the threat of violent, gory death. One of his fellow students described him thusly, \u201cHe was really smart, probably smarter than his father\u2014but he was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to sundry other duties, Uday was put in charge of the Iraqi Olympic teams. He would torture the athletes if they did not perform to his standards. Latif Yahia, Uday\u2019s body double, later said, \u201cThe word that defines him is sadistic. I think Saddam Hussein was more human than Uday. The Olympic Committee was not a sports center, it was Uday&#8217;s world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uday reportedly had a policy wherein he never had sex with a woman more than three times. Once he was done, he frequently had his subjects murdered and their bodies disposed of. When he was unable to be present for a victim\u2019s torture, he often called in so he could listen to their screams over the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The veracity of this story has been disputed. However, it was widely reported in 2003 that the man even ordered an industrial plastic shredder to be shipped to Iraq. He purportedly used the device to kill his enemies by gradually lowering them into the machine feet-first. In short, Uday and Qusay really desperately needed killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-assassination-attempts\">Assassination Attempts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You cannot treat people the way the Hussein boys did without making more than your share of serious enemies. Additionally, Saddam Hussein was Sunni, while the nation he ruled was majority Shia. This, combined with Saddam\u2019s legendarily heavy-handed dictatorship, was the recipe for wet work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Qusay-Hussein.jpg\" alt=\"Qusay hussein\" class=\"wp-image-209395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Qusay-Hussein.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Qusay-Hussein-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Qusay-Hussein-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Qusay Hussein was the more cerebral of the two nutjobs. (Photo\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the quieter of the two psycho brothers, Qusay\u2019s assassination attempt was the milder event. Members of the Iraqi National Congress opened fire on his motorcade on 1 August 2002. Qusay incurred a minor bullet wound to the arm but was otherwise unhurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uday\u2019s event was much more dramatic. He fell prey to his own depraved predictability. Every Tuesday around 7 pm, Uday would cruise around the Mansour district in Baghdad in his late-model Porsche sports car looking for fresh women to rape. Members of the Shia Shaaban resistance movement surveilled the area for three months, gathering intelligence before the hit. When the time was right, a group of assassins opened up, firing a total of fifty rounds at his vehicle. Seventeen actually connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.48.31\u202fAM-896x1024.jpg\" alt=\"man with arm crutches \" class=\"wp-image-209401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.48.31\u202fAM-896x1024.jpg 896w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.48.31\u202fAM-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.48.31\u202fAM-131x150.jpg 131w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.48.31\u202fAM-768x877.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.48.31\u202fAM.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Uday Hussein was never quite right after assassins shot him seventeen times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The resulting purge resulted in a fairly predictable bloodbath. Countless political opponents, both real and imagined, were tortured and killed. As for Uday, after several surgical procedures, Iraqi physicians removed all but two rounds. However, the butcher had suffered significant spinal cord damage. While he was originally rumored to have been paralyzed, he eventually did recover well enough to be able to walk, albeit with a pronounced limp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uday&#8217;s extensive injuries also purportedly rendered him impotent. As you might imagine, for a prolific recreational rapist, that represented an undeniable blow to his pride. He subsequently had the secret police spread spurious stories about his extraordinary sexual prowess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-operation-tapeworm\">Operation Tapeworm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, hunting down the major players in the Hussein government became the top priority. Coalition forces famously produced a deck of playing cards containing the most infamous personalities. Saddam was the ace of spades. Qusay and Uday were the aces of hearts and clubs, respectively. Coalition forces placed a combined bounty of $30 million on the two reprobates. They christened the mission to unalive these two scumbags Operation Tapeworm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.45.18\u202fAM-1024x703.jpg\" alt=\"card deck\" class=\"wp-image-209399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.45.18\u202fAM-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.45.18\u202fAM-400x275.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.45.18\u202fAM-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.45.18\u202fAM-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.45.18\u202fAM-1536x1055.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.45.18\u202fAM.jpg 1846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coalition forces produced a deck of playing cards with the most wanted Iraqi personalities printed on them. (Photo\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>$30 million is a lot of money. That\u2019s enough cash to allow a man to start afresh somewhere. Amidst the war-torn maelstrom of defeated Iraq, the means to set one\u2019s family up on a metaphorical island somewhere was enough to raise a few eyebrows. A pair of those eyebrows belonged to one Nawaf al-Zaidan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nawaf al-Zaidan was a successful businessman and member of the Hussein inner circle of trusted confidantes. When Uday and Qusay needed a place to hide out, they pinged good old Uncle Nawaf. Uday, Qusay, Qusay\u2019s 14-year-old son, Mustafa, and their bodyguard Abdul-Samad had been quietly holed up in Nawaf\u2019s Mosul mansion for about three weeks when Nawaf left the compound on some pretense with his son. The rest of the al-Zaidan family had gone out for breakfast earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Zaidan reported to a nearby 101st Airborne base and explained that the Hussein boys were chilling at his crib. Despite being justifiably terrified&#8211;keep in mind that these were the same two fun-loving kids who supposedly maintained their own recreational plastic shredder&#8211;he offered physical details that corroborated his story. At 1000 on 22 July 2003, eight Delta Force operators, along with some forty 101st grunts, decided to run down the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-monster-killing-101\">Monster Killing 101<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 101st infantrymen established an airtight cordon, and the D-boys gave the Hussein brothers a shout using a bullhorn. When they got no response, the Delta shooters breached the front door for a look-see. They were greeted by sleeting AK-47 fire that wounded three of the assaulters. As the entry team egressed, the Americans took fire from the upper story of the house that wounded a fourth US operator. That\u2019s when these American heroes did what they do best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Showdown-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"a bunch of military men.  hussein\" class=\"wp-image-209397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Showdown-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Showdown-400x295.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Showdown-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Showdown-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Showdown-1536x1134.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Showdown.jpg 1726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Once Uncle Sam found out where the Hussein boys were holed up, it was game on. (Photo\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the actual military world, there\u2019s just no such thing as overkill. Fairness and parity of firepower don\u2019t mean bupkis if it is your hide on the line. The surrounding Screaming Eagles opened up with M2 Browning .50-caliber machine guns, AT4 antitank rockets, and Mk 19 automatic grenade launchers to systematically pulverize the structure. Uday and Qusay fought back, but this was turning into quite the big show. Everybody wanted a piece of it. In short order, a further 200 American grunts showed up ready to party. They brought along a handful of OH-58D Kiowa Warrior armed helicopters and several Humvee-mounted TOW launchers. The American people were about to get their money\u2019s worth on some of that astronomical defense budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-doing-the-deed\">Doing the Deed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 1300 hours, some three hours after the Delta team first initiated their breach, the 101st grunts pumped ten BGM-71 TOW antitank missiles into the house. Support weapons and the Kiowa Warriors added to the carnage. Twenty minutes later, an American assault team moved into the rubble to check things out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.33.48\u202fAM-1024x701.jpg\" alt=\"helicopter flying\" class=\"wp-image-209391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.33.48\u202fAM-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.33.48\u202fAM-400x274.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.33.48\u202fAM-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.33.48\u202fAM-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.33.48\u202fAM-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.33.48\u202fAM.jpg 1808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The OH58D Kiowa Warrior was an armed scout aircraft equipped with 2.75-inch rockets, a .50-caliber machine gun, and Hellfire antitank guided missiles. (Photo\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Uday and Qusay were blown to smithereens. 14-year-old Mustafa had barricaded himself in what was left of a bedroom with a Kalashnikov. When approached by US forces, the boy unlimbered his rifle. The American shooters cut him down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ MORE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/the-gory-demise-of-abu-sayyaf-timeless-tools-to-terminate-a-terrorist\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-psycho-killers-operation-tapeworm\" title=\"Psycho Killers: Operation Tapeworm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Gory Demise of Abu Sayyaf: Timeless Tools to Terminate a Terrorist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-rest-of-the-story\">The Rest of the Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>US troops recovered what was left of the four Iraqis and verified their identities via dental records and DNA assays. Uday and Qusay had grown their beards long in an effort to alter their appearance. Also, Uday had shaved his head. Uday, Qusay, and Mustafa were buried alongside each other in a cemetery in Tikrit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.30.05\u202fAM.jpg\" alt=\"pistol in a frame.  hussein\" class=\"wp-image-209390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.30.05\u202fAM.jpg 932w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.30.05\u202fAM-335x300.jpg 335w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.30.05\u202fAM-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-18-at-5.30.05\u202fAM-768x687.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is Saddam Hussein&#8217;s selective fire Glock 18C on display at the George Bush Presidential Library. Bush the Second kept the gun in the Oval Office after the Delta operators who seized it presented it to him as a war trophy. As a formal Presidential gift, the gun remained the property of the American people. (Photo\/Social media photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hole-728x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Saddam hussein\" class=\"wp-image-209396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hole-728x1024.jpg 728w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hole-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hole-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hole-768x1080.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Saddam-Hole.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How the mighty have fallen&#8230;Saddam Hussein was in a fairly sordid state when the D-Boys dragged him out of his hole in the ground. (Photo\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saddam, for his part, took the news with stoicism. Not that it mattered. Five months later, Delta operators dragged the disheveled despot out of a hole in the ground outside a farmhouse in ad-Dawr near Tikrit. He was armed with a selective fire Glock 18C that was later presented to President Bush as a war trophy. Three years later, the 69-year-old dictator kept his date with the hangman at Camp Justice in Baghdad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Aftermath.jpg\" alt=\"home burnt down.  hussein\" class=\"wp-image-209398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Aftermath.jpg 998w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Aftermath-400x264.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Aftermath-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hussein-Aftermath-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">There wasn&#8217;t much useful left of the al-Zaidan homestead once the Screaming Eagles got done with it. (Photo\/Public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nawaf al-Zaidan\u2019s home was completely destroyed in the operation. However, don\u2019t be too torn up about that. He got the $30 million he was promised by Coalition authorities for ratting out the Hussein boys. Al-Zaidan subsequently disappeared with his wife Mohassin, his 18-year-old son Shalan, and his four daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the agreement, al-Zaidan and his family were covertly relocated to the US. After a purported one-year training period on a US military base, wherein the family learned English and were schooled in the rudiments of wealth management, they were allowed to move anywhere in the States they wished. All seven members of the family were given Green Cards with the option of applying for full citizenship five years later. I checked Google and found no reference to where they ended up. 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