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TAPE: EF03/0550 IN_TIME: 23:17:40 DURATION: 2:44 SOURCES: Al Arabiya RESTRICTIONS: No Access Al Jazeera/Must Courtesy Al Arabiya/Must Not Cover Al Arabiya logo DATELINE: Nov 23 2000 SHOTLIST: 1 Close up Uday Hussein (on camera right) seated at party, talking to a blonde woman 2 Various people dancing 3 Wide shot Uday seated, with two women next to him 4 Cutaway people dancing (camera is on side angle) 5 Uday with pistol in his belt, seated, talking to a man 6 Uday, with three others on sofa, pulls out his pistol and loads clip 7 People dancing 8 Uday on sofa with three others, picks up box of tissues and taps a man on the head with it 9 People dancing 10 Uday talking in woman's ear 11 People dancing 12 Various Uday seated on sofa as people dance (audio of woman being interviewed about being paid to dance at parties including those hosted by Uday) 13 Close up Uday drinking from a glass 14 Various dancing 15 Close up Uday talking to a man STORYLINE: Arab satellite station, Al Arabiya, has broadcast video it says shows Saddam Hussein's notorious son Uday partying in a hotel during the height of his family's power Uday Hussein, the eldest son of the former Iraqi President is seen seated, drinking, in the corner of the room while people dance to music around him Uday, who was paralysed in the left leg after an assassination attempt in 1996, also brandishes a gun at one point in the sequence which is said to have been shot in November 2000 A woman can be heard talking on the tape saying Uday would always hire the best dancers for his parties and that if a woman did not want to dance for him, he would lock her away for a few days as punishment Uday is known among Iraqis as a playboy with a reputation for violence and torture Saddam, Uday and his youngest son, Qusay, hold the top three spots on the US-led coalition's most wanted list but none of them have been seen since the end of the war