Kamel Hana Gegeo ( syr, ܟܐܡܠ ܗܢܐ ܓܐܓܘ; ar, كامل حنا ججو) (c. 1960s – 18 October 1988) was an Iraqi Assyrian bodyguard, valet, and food taster of

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...

. He was murdered by

Uday Hussein Uday Saddam Hussein ( ar, عدي صدام حسين; 18 June 1964 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician and the eldest son of Saddam Hussein. He held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head ...

at a party hosted by

Hosni Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in ...

Career

Gegeo was the personal bodyguard of the former president of

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

, and served as his valet and food taster. Gegeo is said to have introduced Saddam to his second wife,

Samira Shahbandar Samira Shahbandar ( ar, سميرة الشابندر, born 1946) is an Iraqi former doctor and physician. She was the second wife of Saddam Hussein. Early life Shahbandar was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1946. Shahbandar was born into an aristocra ...

, and arranged trysts between them, which led to a feud between Gegeo and

Sajida Talfah Sajida Khairallah Talfah ( ar, ساجدة خير الله طلفاح, Sājidah Khayr Allāh Ṭilfāḥ; born c. 1935) is the widow and cousin of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and mother of two sons ( Uday and Qusay) and three daughter ...

, Saddam’s first wife, and

, who took it as an insult to his mother Sajida. Gegeo’s father, Hana Gegeo, was one of

’s personal chefs, his mother was the nanny of Hala, one of Saddam’s daughters, and his brother, Malco Hana Gegeo, was a military man assigned by Saddam to form the Assyrian forces, which were then called the Assyrian regiment.

Death

On 18 October 1988, Gegeo was murdered by

. During a party thrown in honour of

Suzanne Mubarak Suzanne Mubarak ( ar, سوزان مبارك , née Thabet; born 28 February 1941) is the widow of Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak and was the First Lady of Egypt during her husband's presidential tenure from 14 October 1981 to 11 Februa ...

, the wife of President

of Egypt,

bludgeoned Gegeo with a club in front of guests, and by some accounts, finally shot him to death, possibly acting on orders from his mother. Saddam was willing to punish Uday and arrest him for murder, but after multiple pleads by

and Gegeo’s parents to pardon Uday, he exiled him to Switzerland instead of imprisoning him."Uday & Qusay Hussein, Saddam's Wacky Sons"
''The Konformist'']. August 2003 Mubarak himself later called Uday a "

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