Saddam Kamel Hassan al-Majid ( ar, صدام كامل حسن المجيد; 1960 – 23 February 1996) was the second cousin and son-in-law of deposed

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

i President

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...

. He was also a part time actor.

Biography

He was married to

Rana Hussein Rana Saddam Hussein ( ar, رنا صدام حسين) (born July 25, 1969) is the second-eldest daughter of the former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein and his first wife, Sajida Talfah. Her older sister is Raghad and younger sister is Hala Huss ...

and was the brother of

Hussein Kamel al-Majid Colonel General Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid ( ar, حسين كامل حسن المجيد) ( 1954 – 23 February 1996) was the son-in-law and second cousin of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He defected to Jordan and assisted United Nations Spe ...

(who was also married to a daughter of Saddam, Raghad Hussein).

King Abdullah II of Jordan Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of t ...

, ''

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'',

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, 2011, p. 95 He was for a time head of the

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. He was removed from the position in 1986 in favour of Saddam Hussein's son,

Qusay Hussein Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Nasiri al-Tikriti (or Qusai, ar, قصي صدام حسين; 17 May 1966 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician, military leader, and the second son of Saddam Hussein. He was appointed as his father's heir apparent in ...

, who had then come into majority. Due to his close resemblance to the Iraqi leader, he played the part of Saddam Hussein in the film '' The Long Days'', a propagandistic movie account of Saddam Hussein's early life and rise to power. In 1995, he defected from Iraq with his brother and their wives. His brother gave information to

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, the

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and

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about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. In 1996, they returned to Iraq believing they had been

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ed for their actions; however, the brothers were killed in a prolonged gun battle with either other members of his clan or soldiers loyal to Saddam shortly after they returned. According to the previous theory, described by Iraqi authorities as the official one, al-Majid and numerous other members of the clan had exercised personal vengeance upon the brothers, possibly as a way by Saddam to circumvent his promise of pardon by masking the executions as a family quarrel.

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