UDAY MAY BE DOWN FOR THE COUNT
From an Iranian news source, which of course has several anti-Iraqi axes to grind:Tehran, March 20, IRNA -- Uday, the elder son of Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein, struck by brain hemorrhage following conflict with a
member of Saddam's Fedayeen on Thursday.
Mosuah al-Nahrain in its website on Thursday quoted sources north
of Iraq as saying that very tough and indecent orders, issued by Uday,
who heads Saddam's Fedayeen, had provoked the conflict as the young
man attacked Uday.
Uday's bodyguards then beat the man to injury.
The website declined to give further comments.
As for Saddam's survival, the fog of war remains thick. From CBS by way of Drudge:
"I am being told by several senior officials not to take that taped speech Saddam gave last night as proof that he survived the attack," CBS NEWS reporter David Martin said on air.
"They say the evidence that put him in the bunker last night was very reliable, and they are confident that the cruise missiles and bunker-busting bombs that were fired at that bunker last night hit the target. So now, intelligence experts are studying the tape to determine if it is really Saddam, or a body double which he is known to use from time to time. And they are running a computerized voice analysis, comparing that speech with known recordings of Saddam's voice. But that's a process that takes awhile. So we may not have a quick answer."
"There is considerable belief in this government that they may, in fact, have gotten Saddam."
While NBC takes the opposite view:
Still, said Miklaszewski, U.S. officials are "pretty certain they did not get him, judging by other intelligence they've apparently been able to derive since."