On the 26th anniversary of the incident .. What are the dangerous military secrets that Hussein Kamel revealed after his defection from Saddam?

A great ambiguity surrounded the motives and reasons for the departure of Hussein Kamel and his brother Saddam Sahri, the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, 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..

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 it occurThe 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 from the director of the Special Security Service to military manufacturing, then a minister of defense and oil, and was criticized by 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 it, and monitoring all the contacts that come from inside Iraq.

Disgtural or split?

In turn, Sheikh Hadi Jabbar Al -Mahmoud, the son -in -law of Hussein Kamel and close to him, denied the accusations of betrayal and split.

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 misdemeanor of the official Iraqi position at the time, when they were deaf to Husayn 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.

And on the external cause, the seventh does not exclude 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 a lot of 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 for this reason, 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 narrated an archive information containing more than 5 million documents on a secret Iraqi nuclear program that Iraq did not reveal to 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..

It is shared by this opinion, Al -Jumaili, who considered that the escape of Hussein Kamel and the secrets that he revealed were one of the main reasons for the situation of Iraq today..

His last days

Al -Sabawi notes that after he gave everything to the enemies of Iraq, he left alone and no longer cared 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 to him, 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, Thursday evening, 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.And he said to 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, 52 RPG-7 shells and dense gunshots that destroy 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..