My friend Joe Bahout (whose elegant ruminations were picked up by Tim Cavanaugh in a Reason link on an earlier posting) sends in an interesting item on the disappearance of Uday, reminding me that Antoine Sfeir, a Lebanese analyst living in Paris, recently told French satellite station LCI that Saddam had dispatched Uday, probably to a former Soviet republic (in exchange for money). Why? Who knows, though Uday's mental state is a source of some merriment.

Perhaps, Joe suggests, Saddam didn't want a repeat of the Nepalese royal family murders: Uday flipping and blasting away at everybody else in the bunker.