Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note to Readers
- Dramatis Personae
- Map of Iraq
- Introduction
- One The United States
- Two The “Zionist Entity”
- Three The Arab World
- Four Qadisiyyah Saddam (The Iran-Iraq War)
- Five The Mother of All Battles
- Six Special Munitions
- Seven The Embargo and the Special Commission
- Eight Hussein Kamil
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Timeline
- References
- Index
- References
Eight - Hussein Kamil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note to Readers
- Dramatis Personae
- Map of Iraq
- Introduction
- One The United States
- Two The “Zionist Entity”
- Three The Arab World
- Four Qadisiyyah Saddam (The Iran-Iraq War)
- Five The Mother of All Battles
- Six Special Munitions
- Seven The Embargo and the Special Commission
- Eight Hussein Kamil
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Timeline
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
We have cut off the treacherous branch from our noble family tree.
– Ali Hassan al-Majid (“Chemical Ali”), 23 February 1996Sometime during the night of 7 August 1995, a line of cars slipped across the Iraq-Jordan border and drove to Amman. When Saddam Hussein awoke, he learned that his son-in-law Hussein Kamil had defected to Jordan along with Kamil's brother and the two men's wives, both of whom were Saddam's daughters. Raad Hamdani, the commander of the Republican Guard II Corps, recalled that when Saddam telephoned him around noon to inform him of the defection:
All I heard was screaming, cursing, and insults…Then Qusay [Hussein] came to the phone with a hoarse voice; he said, “If Hussein Kamil gets near you, he should be killed immediately.” I could hear Saddam Hussein in the background cussing and screaming: “That dog! That villain!” It was horrible.
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- The Saddam TapesThe Inner Workings of a Tyrant's Regime, 1978–2001, pp. 296 - 322Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011