Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solidarity posing at Beirut's Bristol Hotel last week, the disparate members of the Iraqi opposition could not resist heaping scorn on one another. Someone noted that before Youssef al-Durrah joined the Democratic Movement, he served as Saddam Hussein's press director. A rival pointed out that Hassan Alawi of the Arab Independents once worked as Saddam's speechwriter. And that communist, Naziha Doulaimi? Well, a critic readily volunteered, she had once been a full member of Saddam's Cabinet...
...single opposition figure has yet surfaced around whom the competing factions can easily rally. Among the secularists, the most popular is General Hassan Naqib, 62, a former army deputy chief of staff who broke with Saddam in 1978 and three years later led a failed revolt of Kurds and Muslims in northern Iraq. Like other exiles who have spent many years outside Iraq, however, he may not have a large enough following at home to produce a stable regime...
...meanest man in Iraq? Those who think it is Saddam Hussein may want to change their opinion. Saddam's new Interior Minister, his paternal cousin Ali Hassan Majid, is as pitiless as they come -- "a total brute," as a British diplomat describes...
...same time, Saddam showed that he was as ready as ever to clamp down hard on his restive populace. He fired his Interior Minister and replaced him with a cousin, Ali Hassan Majid, who not only served as the governor of occupied Kuwait during Iraq's rape of the country but also allegedly supervised the gassing of rebellious Kurds in Halabja in 1988, killing 5,000. Baghdad also expelled all foreign journalists from the country, perhaps to eliminate witnesses to a coming bloodbath. Opposition leaders were terrified that Saddam would use chemical weapons against his own people once again...
...Guards, first organized in the late 1950s, became Saddam Hussein's creation in the 1970s, when they were commissioned to serve as his bodyguards. His original recruits for the Guard units were from his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, and today the Guards' titular head is Hussein Kamel Hassan, 37, Saddam...