Reports from Jordan suggest that Saddam Hussein may favour Qusai , his younger son and head of Iraq's security apparatus, as his successor, rather than his first-born, Uday, who was injured in an assassination attempt in 1996.
" The Kuwaiti report stated that the Syrian nuclear program was based "on equipment and materials that the sons of the deposed Iraqi leader, Uday and Qusai transferred to Syria by using dozens of civilian trucks and trains, before and after the US-British invasion in March 2003.