“The family that slays together, stays together.” This was a family without limits. “Sadistic,” “dysfunctional”…they did whatever it took to remain in power.
Saddam Hussein (April 28, 1937 – December 30, 2006) was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Ba’ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power. He was executed on December 30th, 2006).
Uday Hussein (June 28, 1964 – July 22, 2003), was Saddam’s oldest son, who ran the Iraqi Football Association, Fedayeen Saddam, and several media corporations in Iraq including Iraqi TV and the newspaper Babel. Uday, while Saddam’s favorite son and raised to succeed him, eventually fell out of favour with his father due to his erratic behavior; he was responsible for many car crashes and rapes around Baghdad, constant feuds with other members his family, and killing his father’s favorite valet and food taster Kamel Hana Gegeo at a party in Egypt honoring Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak. He was widely known for his paranoia and his obsession with torturing people who disappointed him in any way, which included tardy girlfriends, friends who disagreed with him and, most notoriously, Iraqi athletes who performed poorly.
Qusay Hussein (May 17, 1966 – July 22, 2003), was Saddam’s second — and, after the mid-90’s, his favorite — son. Qusay was believed to have been Saddam’s later intended successor as he was less erratic than his older brother and kept a low profile. He was second in command of the military (behind his father) and ran the elite Iraqi Republican Guard and the SSO. He was believed to have ordered the army to kill thousands of rebelling Marsh Arabs and frequently ordered airstrikes on Kurdish and Shi’ite settlements. He was also believed to have assisted Ali Hassan al-Majid in the 1988 Halabja and Dujail chemical attacks.
Saddam Kamel Hassan al-Majid (? – 1996), Saddam’s brother in law. Killed by Saddam. Most of the rest of his family have fled to Jordan.
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