Fedayeen Saddam

…Qusay took control of the fedayeen, as well as the elite Republican Guards and the National Security Council. By 2000 Uday reportedly had proved too unstable to retain his father’s trust, and Qusay was then generally regarded as Saddam’s heir apparent. Qusay was also reportedly targeted in would-be assassinations in…

…became head of the paramilitary fedayeen. He oversaw the punishment of disloyal soldiers during and after the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War and was thought to have been responsible for the deaths of his two brothers-in-law who had defected to Jordan and then returned to Iraq. He was left partially paralyzed…