The Great Iraqi Defection
In 1995 two of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's son-in-laws defected to Jordan. What secrets did they bring with them? Former chief weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus debriefed them.
In 1995 two of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's son-in-laws defected to Jordan. What secrets did they bring with them? Witness talks to former chief weapons inspector for Iraq, Rolf Ekeus, who debriefed Hussein Kamel, the son-in-law who'd overseen Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme for Saddam. Rolf Ekeus failed to persuade him later not to return to Baghdad, where he and his brother were both killed.
Photograph: an undated portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (sitting) and his family in Baghdad. General Hussein Kamel and his brother Colonel Saddam Kamel are on the far left. Credit: AFP/Getty Images
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