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Hussein camel

Hussein camel Hasan al-Majid ( Arabic حسين كامل حسن المجيد, DMG Ḥusain Kāmil Ḥasan al-Maǧīd ; * 1954; † February 23, 1996 ) was a son-in-law and second cousin of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein . Since 1982 he was head of the Ministry of Industry and Military Industrialization of Iraq and thus directly responsible for the nuclear , biological and chemical weapons program as well as the missile and super cannon program of Iraq.

Life

Kamel quickly made a career in the Army in the Republican Guard , becoming General and Minister for Military Industrialization of Iraq in 1982.

He married Saddam Hussein's daughter Raghad Hussein and lived in Iraq until 1995. On August 7th of that year he fled to Jordan with his wife and brother Colonel Saddam Kamel . His brother was also accompanied by his wife, also a daughter of the dictator. Jordan granted political asylum to the refugees. Kamel then began to cooperate with the director of the UN weapons inspection mission UNSCOM Rolf Ekéus . He also worked with the CIA and MI6 . Kamel passed on a lot of information to the UN inspectors.

Kamel confirmed that Iraq had various weapons programs, all of which were abandoned prior to the Second Gulf War . He revealed locations as well as previously hidden technical documents he had brought with him. A little later, after Kamel's activities came under pressure, Saddam Hussein gave UN inspectors access to numerous attachments and documents.

In February 1996, through intermediaries from Saddam Hussein, Kamel was assured that he had forgiven him. Hussein and Saddam Kamel were persuaded to return to Iraq with their wives. Immediately upon their arrival, they were forced to divorce their wives, ostracized as traitors and executed .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UNSCOM document (PDF; 466 kB) Conversations between Hussein Kamel and Rolf Ekéus
  2. ↑ focus.de Washing shame with blood , accessed on January 30, 2013
  3. ↑ Miriam Shahin: The final straw . In: The Middle East , April 1, 1996. Retrieved March 16, 2013. 
personal data
SURNAME Camel, Hussein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kamil, Hussein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi politician and confidante of Saddam Hussein
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1996