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...instruments of mass destruction. Over the next four years, the SSO did such an effective job of deception that by July 1995, UNSCOM was ready to declare its task done and close up shop. Then an extraordinary event happened: Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Lieut. General Hussein Kamel al-Majid, who had been in charge of Iraq's secret-weapons development, defected to Jordan, where he went public with details of the concealment program...
...find it troubling that you honored the Red Kamel cigarette package for its design. No matter how pretty the package, its contents kill more than 400,000 people a year. DAVE BAUER Winter Park, Florida...
Disappointment, unhappiness and marital strife seem to be the main reasons. When Hussein Kamel arrived in Jordan, he hoped to take command of Iraq's exiled opposition, which might have placed him in line to succeed Saddam eventually. Soon, however, it became clear that this was not to be. Foreign officials who met him were unimpressed by his character: "Completely inflexible," said a senior Jordanian security official, "and sick in his mind to the extent that he believes only he can be the savior of Iraq and anyone else who attempts to save Iraq is a traitor." As for those...
...their own. "They kept crying and pressuring their husbands," says the Jordanian security official. Receiving assurances from their mother in Baghdad, the women entreated their husbands to appeal for forgiveness. The wives swore on the Koran, "If you are killed, we will commit suicide." As the demands continued, Hussein Kamel became irritable and even violent. He fought constantly with other members of the defection party and last month was reportedly hospitalized for exhaustion...
Several weeks earlier, Hussein Kamel told visitors he did not want to die in exile. He got his wish...