Qusay Hussein was an Iraqi government official and the second son of Iraqi dictator and convicted war criminal, Saddam Hussein. Qusay headed Iraq's intelligence and security services, his father's personal security force and the Iraqi Republican Guard.

Unlike his older brother Uday, who was known for his flamboyant, murderous public persona, Qusay kept a low profile. While certainly more reserved than his brother, he was still a central figure in his father's brutal 24-year rule, and was considered as ruthless and bloodthirsty as his older brother. Qusay ordered mass executions and torture to crush political opponents, and initiated the indiscriminant murder of prisoners as a means of relieving severe overcrowding in jails.

Qusay was being groomed as Saddam's successor, until the 2003 U.S. led invasion of Iraq brought an end to his father's reign of terror.

Full or original name at birth: Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti

Date and place of birth: May 17, 1966, al-Karch district, Baghdad, Iraq

Date, time, place and cause of death: July 22, 2003, at 1 p.m., Mosul, Iraq (Died in a firefight with U.S. forces after refusing to surrender)

Parents
Father: Saddam Hussein (b. April 28, 1937, al-Awja, near Tikrit, Iraq - d. December 30, 2006, at approximately 6:05 a.m., Camp Justice, Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq)
Mother: Sajida Hussein

Burial site: al-Awja (a.k.a. Al-Auja or Al-Ouja), near Tikrit, Iraq

The most in-depth of more than three dozen sources consulted in preparing this profile:
Republic of Fear: The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq, by Samir al-Khalil (1989)
Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, by Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroie (1990)
The Rape of Kuwait: The True Story of Iraqi Atrocities Against a Civilian Population, by Jean P. Sasson (1991)

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