Ayman Sabawi Ibrahim Hassan () (born 21 October 1971) is

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until Saddam Hussein statue destruction, his overthrow in 2003 during the 2003 invasion of Ira ...

's half-nephew and a suspected

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. Ayman's father is

Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti (; 27 February 1947 – 8 July 2013), half-brother of Saddam Hussein, was the leader of the Iraqi secret service, the '' Mukhabarat'', at the time of the 1991 Gulf War. He was the head of the Directorate of General Secur ...

, Saddam's

half-brother A sibling is a relative that shares at least one parent with the other person. A male sibling is a brother, and a female sibling is a sister. A person with no siblings is an only child. While some circumstances can cause siblings to be raised ...

. Ayman was suspected of aiding the Iraqi Insurgency after the 2003

invasion of Iraq An invasion is a military offensive of combatants of one geopolitical entity, usually in large numbers, entering territory controlled by another similar entity, often involving acts of aggression. Generally, invasions have objectives ...

by a United States-led coalition. He was arrested in early May 2005 during a raid north of

Tikrit Tikrit ( ) is a city in Iraq, located northwest of Baghdad and southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of the Saladin Governorate. In 2012, it had a population of approximately 160,000. Originally created as a f ...

. While serving a life sentence in a northern Iraqi prison, Ayman escaped with the help of a police officer on 9 December 200

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Ayman Sabawi, Saddam's Nephew, Breaks Out of Jail in IraqSaddam's nephew makes prison break
Living people 1971 births Tulfah family Iraqi Sunni Muslims Iraqi prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Iraq Iraqi escapees Escapees from Iraqi detention {{Iraq-bio-stub, Ibrahim, Ayman Sabawi