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 | | Born in 1966, the second son of Saddam Hussein, Qusay was the heir apparent, groomed to succeed his father as ruler of Iraq. |
 | | Under the last years of the Hussein regime, he had, however, taken on increasing responsibility as head of all Iraqi intelligence and security services, the Republican Guard, and the Special Republican Guard, the units responsible for the regime's protection and its special weapons programs. |
 | | Qusay is reported to have ordered the prison executions in 1988-89 of more than 2,000 inmates, and was subsequently given broad powers by his father to quell the 1991 Shi'a uprising that followed the Gulf War that year. |
| www.rferl.org /specials/iraqcrisis/kusaj-bio.asp (363 words) |
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