"HITLER WAS MILD COMPARED TO UDAI"

Seven years ago, a Baghdad man's pretty 17-year-old daughter vanished and was rumored to be held inside the Iraq Olympic Committee compound run by Odai. After 10 days, the frantic father asked his lawyer to inquire about the girl. The lawyer presented himself at the committee and eventually was taken before Odai.

According to the file of the lawyer's testimony, Odai "was looking at the papers I had filled out. He said, 'I was going to break both your legs so you can never come back here, but I see your left leg was wounded in the Iran-Iraq war, so I am only going to break your right leg.' "

A henchman shot the lawyer's right foot, leaving him unable to walk, and he recalled being dumped near a hospital. The girl was sent home eventually, having been raped repeatedly, and her family was told not to move. But they fled in terror to Poland, where they had relatives. Several years later, gunmen working for Odai tracked them down there and killed the girl and her father, according to the lawyer.

"This is just a sample," Adnan Jabbar Saadi said Wednesday at the Human Rights Organization of Iraq, where several weeks ago he listened to the lawyer tell his story. "Hitler was mild compared to Odai."

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