Uday wants to surrender to the Americans, according to Fox News.

Apparently he’s afraid that, for some unexplained reason, the Iraqi people, who he’s raped, tortured, imprisoned and gruesomely murdered over the years, may not treat him as gently.

But I found this little bit interesting, if true.

Saddam is also alive and in suburban Baghdad, the person familiar with Uday’s surrender discussions said he has been told by a Saddam relative. He added that the deposed leader is in questionable mental health.

If the part in the last sentence is true, does anyone think that it’s a recent development? I am willing to believe that his mental health problems may have changed in kind in the last few weeks, but I’ve not seen any evidence that Saddam was ever mentally healthy, at least for certain values of “mental health.”