Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid was the son-in-law and second cousin of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He defected to Jordan and took to helping the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA inspection teams assigned to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Kamel rose through the army ranks to become Iraq's minister of military industries, … Wikipedia
Kamel's departure from Iraq was the major turning point of the inspections saga. As UNSCOM said in their final substantive report: middleeastreference.org.uk/kamel.html
During the interview, Kamel says that Iraq had destroyed all of its banned weapons after the First Gulf War. www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=hussein_kamel
In his first television interview since fleeing Baghdad six
weeks ago, Hussein Kamel insisted on answering questions
alone, denying access to the other members of his family. www.cnn.com/WORLD/9509/iraq_defector/kamel_transcript/ind...
At the back row, from left, are Hussein Kamel, Saddam Kamel, his wife and Saddam Hussein's daughter Rana, Saddam's eldest son Odai, Hussein Kamel's wife and Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter Raghad. www.cbc.ca/news/photogalleries/saddam_timeline/pages/04.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Hussein Kamel. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_Kamel
