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Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, were killed during an American military operation conducted on 22 July 2003, in the city of Mosul, Iraq. The operation originally intended to apprehend them but turned into a four-hour gun battle outside a fortified safehouse which ended with the death of the brothers ...
Uday Saddam Hussein [1] [2] (Arabic: عدي صدام حسين; 18 June 1964 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician, military commander and businessman, and the elder son of Saddam Hussein. He held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee , Iraq Football ...
Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Nasiri al-Tikriti (or Qusai, Arabic: 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 2000. He was also in charge of the Republican Guard, a branch of the Iraqi military.
The two sons were killed in the shootout. The apprehending of the most wanted man in Iraq, Saddam Hussein, in Operation Red Dawn directly involved Task Force 121 operators and members of the Army's 4th Infantry Division. [3] [4] Task Force 20 was also involved in what the US military calls a tragic accident on 27 July 2003. At least three ...
Saddam Hussein's sons Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle in Mosul on 22 July 2003. Saddam had allegedly married a third wife, Nidal al-Hamdani, the general manager of the Solar Energy Research Center in the Council of Scientific Research. [271] Wafa Mullah Huwaysh is rumored to have married Saddam as his fourth wife in 2002.
Ali Saddam Hussein (b. 1980), is Saddam’s youngest child. Almost nothing is known about him besides that his mother is Samira Shahbandar , whom Saddam married as his second wife. [ 8 ] She was the former wife of an Iraqi Airways executive before her marriage to Saddam in 1986.
Kamel Hana Gegeo (Syriac: ܟܐܡܠ ܚܢܢ ܓܓܘ; Arabic: كامل حنا ججو; c. 1960s – 18 October 1988) was an Iraqi Assyrian bodyguard, valet, and food taster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He was murdered by Saddam’s son, Uday Hussein, at a party with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as a guest.
Hussein married one of Saddam Hussein's daughters, Raghad Saddam, and lived in Iraq until 1995. [3] On 7 August of that year, he and his wife defected from Iraq, along with his brother, Saddam Kamel, and his brother's wife, Rana Saddam, another of Saddam's daughters. In a 21 September 1995 interview with CNN, Hussein Kamel explained: [4]