Saddam Hussein's half brother dies of cancer

July 08, 2013 06:48 pm | Updated 07:14 pm IST - BAGHDAD

A file photo of Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, who died of cancer in a Baghdad hospital on Monday.

A file photo of Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, who died of cancer in a Baghdad hospital on Monday.

Saddam Hussein’s half brother, who was facing the gallows for his role as chief of the regime’s feared security service and allegedly one of the architects of the insurgency against U.S. and allied forces in Iraq, died of cancer in a Baghdad hospital on Monday, a senior official said.

Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim told The Associated Press that Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, who had received several death sentences, was transferred to the hospital from prison as his health deteriorated at dawn. His body will be handed over to his family.

Mr. al-Hassan had lived in exile for a period after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, but was deported to Iraq by the Syrian Government in 2005. He was suspected of directing and financing insurgency operations from Syria carried out by Saddam loyalists in Iraq.

Under Mr. Hussein, Mr. al-Hassan served as head of intelligence and security during the 1991 Gulf War. He then ran the general security service until 1996, when he took up his final post of Presidential adviser to Mr. Hussein.

Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging on December 2006 for his role in the 1982 killings of 148 Shiites following a failed assassination attempt in the early 1980s.

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