IRAQ

Hindustantimes: Conspiracy theories abound as US releases Uday-Qusay photos

Saddam Hussein is tanning in Tel Aviv; his wife Sajida and three daughters are sipping tea in their mansion in Leeds, England; and his sons Uday and Qusay are gambling in Monte Carlo.
Such wild conspiracy theories, widely believed by ordinary Iraqis, are why Washington released what it said were photographs of Saddam's slain sons amid great fanfare on Thursday.

"It's a show," laughs sculptor Mohammed Ghani Hikmat about Uday and Qusay's deaths, announced by the US military on Tuesday.

"Everyone is talking. Some people say the family is in England. Some people say Morocco. Some people say they're in America."

The deaths of Uday and Qusay, whose names became bywords for the cruelty of the ousted regime, was, to many, the ultimate proof of a secret pact between the United States and Saddam.