He revealed military secrets when he resorted to Jordan ... the full story of Hussein Kamel Saddam's son -in -law and his killing upon his return to Iraq

Hussein Kamel's defection was the son -in -law of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, one of the prominent events that enjoyed wide coverage of the Arab and international press over months that spanned between 1995 and 1996 in the midst of the international blockade imposed on the country at the time, as he was his security arm and minister of military industrialization and supervisor of the Guard ForcesThe Republican, which was considered the elite forces in the Iraqi army.

The incident of his death was formed as he returned to Iraq after issuing an amnesty for him a prominent paradox in the march of Saddam Hussein's rule, many of these events marred by personal and clan interference and accusations of betrayal and attempts to overthrow the regime in Baghdad.

His biography and upbringing

Hussein Kamel Hassan Al -Majid was born on June 18, 1954 in the village of Tal Al -Dahab in the city of Tikrit in Salah al -Din Governorate (north of Baghdad), and he belongs to the same clan of Saddam Hussein, as Hussein Kamel's father is Saddam Hussein's cousin from the Al -Majid family.

Hussein Kamel did not complete his studies, as he left it in 1966 and was in the last stage of the primary study, then in 1974 his father's cousin Saddam Hussein (who was then vice -president of the republic) appointed him in his guards, and in 1979 he completed a course for reserve officers and graduated with it with rankA first lieutenant, according to the writer and historian Wassim Al -Ani, who confirms to Al -Jazeera Net that Hussein Kamel, since Saddam agreed to marry his daughter Raghad in 1983, was poured into promotions and military ranks.

Security positions

Hussein Kamel was one of the few Saddam Hussein in the security joints of the country, as because of his kinship and his proximity to the president, his strength and his power, he was included in many sensitive security positions until he assumed the position of Minister of Military Industrialization between 1987 and 1995, in addition to his supervision of the Republican Guard.

The editor -in -chief of the "Perspective Predictions" newspaper says that Hussein Kamel was not the first founder of the Republican Guard, as this force was established in the 1960s, but he supervised it after the mid -eighties, and during his reign it was strengthened, expanded and raised its combat and armament levels, Which was reflected on the course of the war with Iran (1980-1988) in its last years.

And he goes with this proposition, the historian Wassim Al -Ani, who believes that since Hussein Kamel Berghad, Saddam has increased confidence in him and assigned him to supervise the Republican Guard forces, as the number of the guards brigades increased and the weapons he possessed until he had become the great and strongest force within the Iraqi army. Al -Ani continues -The author of the book "The History of Military Comments in Iraq"- that over time, Saddam's confidence in Hussein Kamel increased, and gave him the rank of first team to become the first responsible for the Iraqi nuclear program in the early nineties.

As for the Iraqi military industrialization, Mustafa Kamel - who was the secretary of the editor -in -chief of the official newspaper (before the American invasion of the country in 2003) - indicates that Saddam's son -in -law played a major role in developing military industrialization due to the wide powers that were in his hand, in addition to the capabilitiesThe tremendous placed in his hands.

His escape to Jordan

The great ambiguity of the motives and the reasons for the departure of Hussein Kamel and his brother Saddam Sahri, the late Iraqi President, and the truth of the secrets that he divided more than a quarter of a century ago, and its repercussions on Iraq.

Days after their departure from Iraq and their arrival in Jordan, accompanied by their two wives, Hussein Kamel held a press conference on August 12, 1995, in which he announced the start of his movements to overthrow the regime in Baghdad, to make these statements a sensation in the local and international media.

Hussein Kamel's escape to Jordan was a surprise of the heavy caliber of the Iraqi regime and the clan of Saddam Hussein, says the security expert Majid Al -Qaisi, who is due to the reasons for his escape and his brothers to Jordan to the great differences between him and Uday, Saddam's son.

This Al -Ani's proposition confirms that on August 9, 1995, Hussein Kamel, his brothers, their wives and children left to Jordan and he was then Minister of Military Industrialization due to the family differences between him and Uday and Qusay Saddam on the one hand, and the rest of the family on the other hand, as well as because of his planning to overthrow Saddam and seizeOn the ruling in any way.

In order to realize his inability to turn against Saddam from the inside and Uday's standing against his ambitions, Hussein Kamel decided to leave Iraq in an effort to obtain Western support, which he did not succeed in Al -Ani, but during his presence in Jordan, all the sensitive secrets related to Iraqi armament programs.

Returning to Harir, the daughter of Hussein Kamel, she confirms in her book that her father's disagreement with all of her uncle Uday and Qusay and some family members, and the fear of her father over his life, pushed him to go out to Jordan.

As for the editor -in -chief of the "Perspective Persons" newspaper, he believes that Hussein Kamel's exit from Iraq was on the surface related to a family dispute with some of Saddam Hussein's relatives, but the matter was largely exploited and from external parties, pointing out that what is evidenced by Hussein Kamel held the press conferenceThe famous in Raghadan Palace in the Jordanian capital, Amman, just 3 days after his arrival in this country.

Mustafa Kamel continues that Hussein Kamel was planned for what he pre -made, referring to his statements and declaring the defection from the ruling 3 days after his arrival in Amman, which caused the UN inspection of Iraqi weapons to the zero point due to his disclosure of the secrets of Iraq and its armament systems, at a time when it was allThe indicators at the time confirm the near release of the issue of the comprehensive siege that was imposed on Iraq (1990-2003).

Earthquake and shock

Hussein Kamel's splitting of an earthquake in the entity of the Iraqi state and a shock to the state cadres and the Baath Party, as this did not occur to anyone and cannot be believed even after its occurrence, because the man was Raghad's husband - the daughter of Saddam - and the place of his absolute confidence in which no one is contested even fromThe sons of the late Iraqi President himself, according to former Iraqi intelligence officer Salem Al -Jumaili.

Al -Jumaili - for Al -Jazeera Net - shows that the full occupation of the highest positions in the country, starting from the director of the Special Security Service to military manufacturing, then a minister of defense and oil, and was criticizing President Saddam for the role that Hussein Kamel obtained and the support he received as he had absolute powers.

The former intelligence officer indicates that after Hussein Kamel appeared on television, calling for the overthrow of the regime, strict orders were issued by Saddam to the intelligence and security devices regarding identifying his relationships and contacts inside Iraq, investigating those close to him and monitoring all the contacts that come from him to Iraq.

In turn, Sheikh Hadi Jabbar Al -Mahmoud, the son -in -law of Hussein Kamel and close to him, denied the accusations of treason and splitting against Kamel, and said that he left Iraq for special circumstances imposed on him, related to attempts to assassinate him and his exposure to many harassment, and many insults despite his high positions.

Al -Mahmoud explains - to Al -Jazeera Net - that they went out naturally with their cars and official passports, and even upon his return he returned as an official in the state and gave his directives to border employees, denying all the reports that he talked about coordinating with the American intelligence to arrange his exit from Iraq.

Al -Mahmoud expressed his regret for the misfortune of the official Iraqi position at the time, when they were deaf to Hussein Kamel with betrayal and employment and attached the charges of theft and that he had hidden things with his own farm and so on.

As for the historical researcher and political analyst Hussein Saleh Al -Sabawi, he attributes a complete defection to two reasons.the family.

On the external cause, Al -Sabawi does not rule out the continuation of the American intelligence services and the Israeli Mossad with Hussein Kamel, whether directly or indirectly, and it may have obtained promises that satisfy him with temptations or threats, given that the system will collapse and will bear full responsibility.

Dangerous secrets

Kamel revealed serious secrets about the Iraqi armament program and nuclear scientists, and gave many information in this regard, as his exit from the heart of power was a major event that the American intelligence took advantage of to communicate with him and interrogate him, as political thinker Hassan Al -Alawi says.

In his talk to Al -Jazeera Net, Al -Alawi confirms full knowledge of a forbidden military secrets on others, as he knows the depth of the secrets and its core, and for this he was beneficial to America, because he has the secrets of what no one has someone else in the Saddam government, and no one else and the late president know it, including tasks that he cost himAnd people were arrested and messages sent to countries and groups working with Iraq in the Arabian Gulf and others, all of which were revealed, and this was why Hussein Kamel's exit was the most dangerous crisis that Saddam Hussein went through.

And on the most prominent of these secrets, Salem Al -Jumaili says that Kamel had leaked an archive information containing more than 5 million documents on a secret Iraqi nuclear program that Iraq did not reveal in front of the United Nations inspection committees that were charged with removing the weapons of Iraq, and he was hidden in a poultry field on a farm.Hussein Kamel in the Essaouira area, south of Baghdad, and the inspection committees soon went to the place and put their hand on the files, which absolutely lost the United Nations confidence in Iraq, and this was an opportunity for the United States to exert more pressure on Iraq and prolong the sanctions.

The repercussions of recognition

Al -Sabawi talks about serious repercussions produced by Hussein Kamel's defection - as the most important military and civil figure who has information about military manufacturing in Iraq, whether missile or chemical - by virtue of his position as head of the Military Industrialization Authority, then the Minister of Industrialization and Defense, as well as worked as director of the Special Security Service responsible for protecting Saddam and his familyAnd all the institutions of the Republican Palace.

He notes that Hussein Kamel provided important information to the International Intelligence and the Inspection Committees, because he is the first responsible for it and knows their places, so with his disclosure of these secrets, the inspection teams and their position returned are strong as they possess information and evidence about the location of these documents and about companies, countries and experts working in the field of manufacturing, who were filtered.Or, most of them were arrested after the American invasion of the country in 2003.

He continues that complete confessions made the Iraqi state in a weak position, and its demand to lift the siege imposed on Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait on the second of August 1990, which became weaker, which led to the prolongation of the siege on the people and the weak position of Iraq in front of its supporters.Which considered that Hussein Kamel's escape and the secrets he revealed were one of the main reasons for what the situation of Iraq reached today.

His last days

After several attempts by Hussein Kamel, in which Western support failed to change the regime in Iraq or help him in the coup, and after Saddam offered him officially in exchange for return, he decided to return on February 20, 1996.

Al -Sabawi notes that after he gave everything to the enemies of Iraq, he left alone and no longer cares about him at the time, and he realized his involvement with greater parties than him and did not give him what he wanted, and for this he lived his last days in Jordan in isolation.

"From the naivety of Hussein Kamel, he believed that Saddam Hussein pledged to pardon him and quickly returned to Iraq, and if he was really important, he would not have allowed him to return, but he was no longer anything in his possession, so he left him facing his inevitable fate."

On the reasons that led to the liquidation of Hussein Kamel, his sister Manahel Kamel says that this is due to "the zeal of the extreme relatives from him when they saw his successes, so they started fighting him, and aspiring in his positions, where Uday Saddam Hussein greedy with military manufacturing, while Qusai Saddam Hussein was covet to superviseRepublican Guard".

Manager - for Al -Jazeera Net - shows that her two brothers, Hussein and Saddam Kamel, when they returned from Jordan, that there is something in the secret that was being hatched against them, so they went to the house of their sister in the Al -Sayyidiya area in Baghdad, while their clan was holding continuous meetings to issue Uday Saddam Hussein his orders to move immediately to kill Hussein KamelAnd his brother Saddam Kamel, February 23, 1996, 3 days before the scheduled date for fear of his escape.

"The mobility began near the house where Hussein Kamel was from the time of Morocco. He told them that you gave me safety, so what is the reason for these moves? The mobilization continued until four o'clock in the morning, as the attack on the house started using internationally prohibited gases, and 52 shells" RPG-7 ″ and thick gunshots broke the house on its residents, and the bodies of women and children were charred.

Manahel recalls that "her brother continued to resist for long hours, and he was linking his wounds with wood and moving between the walls of the neighboring houses until the equipment was exiled the next day, as the attack carried out elements of the elite forces represented by the Republican Guard, the Special Guard, the emergency and the army, and after the end of the confrontation the house was completely bulldozed.".

Hussein Kamel's sister ruled out that this matter had happened without Saddam Hussein's knowledge, especially since the number of relatives who participated in the attack was more than 30 people.

Returning to Al -Qaisi, he indicates in his speech to Al -Jazeera Net that if Hussein Kamel had received a Western or American support, he would not have returned to Iraq, but the Western sides discovered that it did not constitute a difficult number in Iraq and was not loved, and therefore he did not receive the support he aspired to.

Harir supplies in her book that Izz al -Din al -Majid (Saddam's cousin) - who had gone with Hussein Kamel to Jordan - warned her father against returning and told him that he would be killed if he returned, but he did not listen to these warnings and insisted on returning to Iraq, stressing that her father was almost certain.Who will be killed.

Mysterious

Returning to the journalist Mustafa Kamel, he believes that the official pardon for Hussein Kamel may have been real and not a trap, but the matter came out of the authority of the state to the authority of the clan, which wanted to punish her son, and that what Hussein Kamel caused tremendous damage to Iraq is not possible or pardon.

Regarding his death or rhythm, he continues that Hussein Kamel did not read the situation well, and he did not understand the explicit signals that he reached from his relatives in Baghdad, especially since his wife Raghad informed him that the matter will not be smooth and will not end the way he imagines, and that there is a penalty awaiting him.

As for Harir, she remembers that the killing of her father was 3 days after his return to Baghdad, specifically on February 23, 1996, in a battle that took place between Hussein Kamel, his brothers and his father on the one hand, and between the group of security forces that surrounded the house that was inhabited in the Sayidiya area in Baghdad on the one handOthers, where the battle began at three in the morning and continued for 12 continuous hours, during which the two brothers of Hussein Kamel, his father and all the children and the women who were with him were killed, and Hussein Kamel was the last to be killed after the attackers resisted for long hours and his ammunition.

And that narration confirms the historian Al -Ani, who said that the one who killed Hussein Kamel and participated in the long battle against him is his clan, as he was at the head of strength Ali Hassan Al -Majeed (uncle Saddam Hussein and uncle of Hussein Kamel), indicating that the battle witnessed the use of dozens of RPG shells(RBG) and various types of weapons.