Kamel Hana Gegeo
Kamel Hana Gegeo was an Iraqi bodyguard.Early life
Gegeo was of Assyrian ethnicity, and an Iraqi Christian.Career
Gegeo was the personal bodyguard of the former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and served as his valet and food taster. Gegeo is said to have introduced Saddam to his second wife, Samira Shahbandar, and arranged trysts between them.Death
On 18 October 1988, Gegeo was murdered by Uday Hussein. During a party thrown in honor of Suzanne Mubarak, the wife of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Uday Hussein 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. Mubarak called Uday Hussein a "psychopath".
He was portrayed by Akbar Kurtha in the BBC's series House of Saddam and Mem Ferda in The Devil's Double.
