Still, the stories -- some supported by affidavits from victims who escaped -- are as consistent as they are shocking. One is that as president of Iraq's national Olympic association, Uday installed a prison in its Baghdad headquarters to torture athletes who did not perform adequately.
He is also alleged to have ordered the hand of a security officer at Olympic headquarters amputated after the guard was wrongly accused of stealing sports equipment.
Uday, No. 3 on the list of 55 most-wanted men from the former Iraqi regime, is also accused of:
Raping scores of women;
Related Articles
Bludgeoning to death one of his father's faithful aides, whom he blamed for causing Saddam Hussein to discard his mother as a wife;
Having his henchmen beat the feet of players on the national soccer team who he said dishonoured Iraq by losing matches;
Spraying a machine gun at a family party, killing a number of dancers and wounding an uncle.
Routinely portrayed as a psychotic, wealthy playboy, Uday was said to have attended discotheques and to have had his bodyguards kidnap young women who resisted his entreaties.
Ismail Hussain, a former Iraqi pop star who performed for Uday and now lives in Ottawa, remembers that he indulged not only in women but in fast cars, foot-long Cuban cigars, expensive food and drink -- he had a fondness for Hennessey cognac -- designer clothes and expensive jewellery.
When U.S. troops overran Uday's mansion, they found tawdry paintings of naked women, photographs of prostitutes taken from the Internet and Chinese herbal sexual stimulants.
In 1996, Uday became a target himself when gunmen ambushed his car, hitting him with several bullets and leaving him partially paralyzed.
In Pictures:
