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...ANNALS OF BAD BETS, THE ONE Hussein Kamel al-Majid made last week may never be surpassed. What are the odds that someone who defects from Iraq, advocates the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and spills secrets about Saddam's weapons program would be allowed to return to Baghdad and live a long and fruitful life? Not very good, you would think. And as Hussein Kamel learned, you would be right...
...reverse defection, Hussein Kamel and his brother piled their families and flotsam pieces of luggage into a convoy of Mercedes and drove to the Jordan-Iraq border. There they were received by Saddam's sons Qusay and Uday, a wanton killer who is Hussein Kamel's sworn enemy. When word of the return reached the West, Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a woman who rarely finds herself at a loss for words, said simply, "I have given up trying to understand the Iraqi elite...
...Hussein Kamel, better than most, was in a position to understand how brutal his reception was likely to be. Defecting was bad enough. Once in exile, however, he denounced Saddam as a tyrant and murderer and gave the U.N. valuable information about Iraq's weapons program. Saddam has ordered countless executions for far less serious transgressions. Hussein Kamel knew all this, but if he had any remaining uncertainty about his father-in-law's attitude toward him, it should have been dispelled by Iraq's state-controlled media, which branded him a thief, a coward, a spy and a "traitor...
Three days after returning to Iraq, a senior State Department source reports that Hussein Kamel and his brother have been killed by a mob of "hotheads" in Baghdad. The killings follow shortly after news that Saddam Hussein's daughters had divorced the husbands they had defected to Jordan with six months ago. Iraq's official news agency announced the divorces earlier today and cited "betrayal of the homeland" as the wives' main reason. The two men, Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel, had returned to Iraq with assurances of a pardon being granted...
AMMAN, JORDAN: Iraqui Defectors Lt. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Col. Saddam Kamel returned to Iraq with their wives, both daughters of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday. The party moved back to Iraq in a 25-vehicle caravan after the Iraqi Revolutionary Council answered al-Majid's request for a pardon with the vague promise that he would be treated like "an ordinary citizen." Even though Al-Majid's defection last August to Jordan was considered a blow to Saddam's regime, al-Majid was ignored by Western governments and the Iraqi dissidents he had hoped to lead...