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Hussein Kamel al-Majid was an Iraqi military commander and politician who served as the Minister of Defense from 1994 to 1995. He was born in 1954 in the city of Tikrit, Iraq, to a prominent Sunni Arab family. He was the son of Kamel al-Majid, a former Iraqi Army officer and a cousin of Saddam Hussein.
He joined the Iraqi Army in 1972 and rose through the ranks to become a Major General in 1991. He was appointed Minister of Defense in 1994 and served in that position until 1995. During his tenure, he was responsible for the modernization of the Iraqi military and the development of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
In 1995, he defected to Jordan and provided the United Nations with information about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. He was granted asylum in Jordan and lived there until his death in 2021.
Hussein Kamel al-Majid was 66 years old at the time of his death. He was married to his wife, Amal, and had three children. He had an estimated net worth of $2 million.
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42 years old |
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Gemini |
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18 June, 1954 |
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18 June |
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Tel Al Thahab, Kingdom of Iraq |
| Date of death |
February 23, 1996, |
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Baghdad, Republic of Iraq |
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Hussein Kamel al-Majid Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Hussein Kamel al-Majid's Wife?
His wife is Raghad Hussein
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Kamel Hassan al-Majid |
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Raghad Hussein |
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Banaan Hareer Saddam Wahaj |
Hussein Kamel al-Majid Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons—biological, chemical, missile, nuclear—were destroyed.
A 3 March 2003 Newsweek report said that Kamel's revelations were "hushed up" because inspectors "hoped to bluff Saddam [Hussein] into revealing still more." Kamel's version of events appear to have been borne out in the wake of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
In the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bush administration figures—including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell—repeatedly cited Kamel's testimony as evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
In a 25 January 1999 report to the U.N. Security Council, UNSCOM declared that the history of the Iraqi weapons inspections "must be divided into two parts, separated by the events following the departure from Iraq, in August 1995, of Lt. Gen. Hussein Kamel."
In February 1996, after intermediaries for Saddam Hussein had assured them that all would be forgiven, Hussein Kamel and Saddam Kamel were convinced to return to Iraq with their wives. Reportedly, immediately upon their return, they were ordered to divorce their wives and were denounced as traitors. Three days after their arrival, on 23 February, they refused to surrender to Saddam's security forces and were killed in a 13-hour firefight at a safe house. According to an alternative version of events, the Kamel brothers were killed less than 24 hours following the divorce decrees, in a gun battle with other cousins trying to gain back their clan honor in the eyes of Saddam.
He married one of Saddam Hussein's daughters, Raghad Saddam, and lived in Iraq until 1995. On 7 August of that year, Kamel and his wife defected from Iraq, along with Kamel's brother, Saddam Kamel, and the brother's wife, Rana Saddam, another of Saddam Hussein's daughters. In a 21 September 1995 interview with CNN, Hussein Kamel explained:
Kamel was born in Tel Al Thahab (in modern-day Balad District, Saladin Governorate). He rose through the military ranks to become the Supervisor of the Republican Guard, Iraq's elite military forces, in 1982. He later became the Minister of Industries, heading the Military Industrialisation Commission and supervising Iraq's weapons development programs from 1987. Kamel became oil minister of Iraq in 1990.
Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid (Arabic: حسين كامل حسن المجيد ) (18 June 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 Special Commission (UNSCOM) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection teams assigned to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
