Al-Bandar, Awad Hamed b. 1945 d. January 15, 2007 Iraqi Official. He was an Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency. He was the head of the Revolutionary Court which issued death sentences against 143 Dujail residents, in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt against Hussein on July 8, 1982. At the Al-Dujail trial the Iraqi Special Tribunal tried Awad for crimes against humanity for issuing the death sentences. On November 5, 2006, Awad was sentenced to death by hanging along with co-defendants Saddam Hussein and Barzan...[Read More] Cause of death: Execution by hanging Al-Awja Religious Compound, Al-Awja, Salah ad Din, Iraq Plot: Outside courtyard
Hussein, Qusay b. May 17, 1966 d. July 22, 2003 Second son of Saddam Hussein, Dictator of Iraq. He was the heir apparent to his father's dictatorial position of President of Iraq, replacing his older brother Uday, when Uday proved to be erratic and less stable. Born Qusay Saddam al-Tikreti, in Baghdad, he was the second child and second son of three sons and three daughters to Saddam Hussein. His mother, Sajida Talfah, was Saddam's cousin and his first wife, and gave birth to the first five children of Saddam. Their father trained him and...[Read More] (Bio by: K) Al-Awja Religious Compound, Al-Awja, Salah ad Din, Iraq Plot: Outside courtyard
Hussein, Saddam b. April 28, 1937 d. December 30, 2006 President and dictator of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Born Saddam Hussein al-Majid al-Tikriti in Al-Awja, Iraq, he was the son of a poor shepherd family of the Begat tribal group. His father, Hussein Abid al-Majid, disappeared six months before he was born, and his mother, Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat, sent the infant son to be raised by her brother, Khairallah Talfah. When he was three years old, his mother remarried, and Saddam returned to his mother, gaining three half-brothers in the process...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson) Al-Awja Religious Compound, Al-Awja, Salah ad Din, Iraq Plot: Inside of building
Hussein, Uday b. June 18, 1964 d. July 22, 2003 Eldest son of Saddam Hussein, Dictator of Iraq. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq, as the first child of three sons and three daughters of Saddam Hussein. As the eldest son of Saddam, he was the heir apparent to his father's dictatorial position of President of Iraq, but was replaced by his younger brother Qusay, when he proved to be erratic and less stable. Born Uday Saddam al-Tikreti, in Baghdad, he was the first child and first son of three sons and three daughters to Saddam Hussein. His mother...[Read More] (Bio by: K) Al-Awja Religious Compound, Al-Awja, Salah ad Din, Iraq Plot: Outside courtyard
Ibrahim el-Hasan al-Tikriti, Barzan b. February 17, 1951 d. January 15, 2007 Iraqi Official. He was one of three half-brothers of Saddam Hussein, and the former leader of the Iraqi secret service, known as Mukhabarat. Barzan was sent by the government of Iraq to Geneva in 1988 to serve as representative to the United Nations, a post he held until 1998. Up to 1995, he handled Saddam's personal fortune. This task was then taken over by a network of foreign brokers, since Saddam had decided that no-one in Iraq could be trusted with this task. US officials characterized...[Read More] Cause of death: Execution by hanging Al-Awja Religious Compound, Al-Awja, Salah ad Din, Iraq Plot: Outside courtyard
Ramadan, Taha Yasin b. 1938 d. March 20, 2007 Iraqi Vice President, his full name was Taha Yasin Ramadan Al-Jizrawi. He served as the Vice President of Iraq under former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from March 1991 until the fall of Hussein's government in April of 2003. He began his military and political career when he joined the Ba'ath Party in 1956. A former bank clerk, Ramadan met Hussein at about the same time. After Hussein came to power, he was eventually made Vice President. In 2003, after the United States invaded Iraq, he...[Read More] (Bio by: K) Al-Awja Religious Compound, Al-Awja, Salah ad Din, Iraq Plot: Outside courtyard
b. 1945 d. January 15, 2007
