Saddam Kamel (1960 - 23 February 1996) was the leader of the Iraqi Republican Guard from 1968 to 1986, and the second cousin and son-in-law of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
Biography[]
Kamel was the second cousin of Saddam Hussein, but after he married his daughter Rana Hussein, Kamel became his son-in-law as well. He served as the commander of the Iraqi Republican Guard during the Iran-Iraq War and fought on the home front of the war against the Iranian Army, and he proved to be an efficient commander of the Iraqi Army. Kamel was later replaced by Qusay Hussein, Saddam's son in 1986 and Kamel grew tired of the nepotism that ruled Ba'athist Iraq. In 1995, he gave information to the CIA and MI6 about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and defected from Iraq. Believing that he was pardoned, he returned to Iraq in 1996 but was killed in a gun battle alongside his brother Hussein Kamel al-Majid.