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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 ...
Al-Douri was made the King of Clubs in the famous most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, making him among the top 8 "most wanted" figures in Saddam Hussein's regime. [ 38 ] At the time of the invasion of Iraq , al-Douri, along with Saddam and Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan , were among the three surviving plotters who had brought the Ba'ath Party ...
Saddam Hussein: President of Iraq: Executed on 30 December 2006: 2. Qusay Hussein: Director of the SSO: Killed on 22 July 2003 3. Uday Hussein: Commander of Fedayeen Saddam: Killed on 22 July 2003 4. Abid Hamid Mahmud: Presidential Secretary: Executed on 7 June 2012 5. Ali Hassan al-Majid: Director of IIS: Executed on 25 January 2010 6. Izzat ...
[3] [11] At 1 a.m., on 13 December 2006, Barzan Hassan, Saddam's half-brother and the former Iraqi intelligence chief, and Awad Bandar, the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were escorted from their cells and told by their American guards that they were to be executed at dawn with Saddam. Nine hours later they were returned to their ...
He fled Iraq in 2006 because of the sectarian violence and moved with his family to the Jordanian capital Amman, but returned to Iraq in 2007 for a career in politics. [5] In October 2007, he was nominated by the opposition Iraqi Accord Front to the Council of Representatives of Iraq , replacing Abd al-Nasir al-Janabi , who had resigned to join ...
Saddam's body was buried in his birthplace of Al-Awja in Tikrit, Iraq, near family members, including his two sons Uday and Qusay Hussein, on 31 December 2006 at 04:00 local time (01:00 GMT). [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] His body was transported to Tikrit by a U.S. military helicopter, where he was handed over from Iraqi government possession to Sheikh ...
On the night of Monday 21 July 2003, Nawaf al-Zaidan, a businessman and close friend of Saddam's family (and also being a part of a family known for falsely claiming to be 'cousins' of Saddam's family, rather being from the same tribe [3]) who had been sheltering Uday, Qusay, Qusay's 14-year-old son Mustafa and their bodyguard Abdul-Samad in ...
The 1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq, also known as the First Sadr Uprising, took place as a followup to the Iranian Revolution (1978–1979) in neighbouring Iran, as the Shia Iraqi clerics vowed to overthrow Ba'athist Iraq, dominated by (secular) Sunni Muslims - specifically the Saddam Hussein family. Saddam and his deputies believed that the ...