He held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee , Iraq Football Association , and the Fedayeen Saddam. Uday Hussein was born in Baghdad.
He was the eldest child of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his first wife and cousin, Sajida Talfah. Uday was seen for several years as the likely successor to his father but lost the place as heir apparent to his younger brother, Qusay , due to injuries in an assassination attempt. Following the United States-led invasion of Iraq in , he was killed alongside Qusay and his nephew Mustafa by an American task force after a prolonged gunfight in Mosul. Uday was reportedly erratically ruthless and intimidating to perceived adversaries as well as to close friends.
Relatives and personal acquaintances were often victims of his violence and rage. Witness allegations have suggested he was guilty of rape , murder , and torture , including the arrest and torture of Iraqi Olympic athletes and members of the national football team whenever they lost a match. One source gave it as early as He was rumored to have played with disarmed grenades as an infant.
Uday attended al-Mansour school in Baghdad in the s. One of his teachers was Dinah Bentley, an English teacher from Yorkshire who married an Iraqi and briefly taught at the school. Uday was reportedly driven to school by a chauffeur in a Mercedes-Benz and surrounded by servants. He picked up his English teacher's Yorkshire accent and was described as a cheerful, bright child who was responsive to discipline, but an average student who struggled to concentrate.
He began studies at Baghdad Medical College , but only stayed for three days. He obtained a doctorate in political science from the University of Baghdad in and the title of his dissertation was "The world after the Cold War", in which he predicted the United States would no longer be a world power in In the former role, he tortured athletes who failed to win.
