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Police in Iraq show cars owned by Saddam's son
Car lovers in Iraq, tired of an endless parade of sand-coloured Humvees, got a bit of a treat on Monday when police discovered five luxury cars once owned by a notorious son of former dictator Saddam Hussein.
- AP
- Published: 08:52 July 8, 2008
- Two Rolls Royces and several vintage classics were stolen from Uday Hussain's palace during the looting after the US-led invasion in 2003.
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Baghdad: Car lovers in Iraq, tired of an endless parade of sand-coloured Humvees, got a bit of a treat on Monday when police discovered five luxury cars once owned by a notorious son of former dictator Saddam Hussein.
The cars - two Rolls Royces and several vintage classics - had been stolen from Uday Hussain's palace during the looting after the US-led invasion in 2003, police said.
For years, the cars were buried beneath the dirt of an orchard in Baghdad's Dora neighbourhood.
A group planned to smuggle the cars out of the country and sell them, said a police officer.
Police learned of the plan after a tip-off, he said. They followed large trucks into the orchard to find the spot where the cars were buried and then arrested three people.
The cars, now in police possession, were shown to the media on Monday. It was unclear what would become of them.
Uday Hussain and his younger brother, Qusai, were both killed in a gunbattle with US forces in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in 2003, a few months after the invasion of Iraq.
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