He defected to Jordan and assisted United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection teams assigned to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

And as a result of this the whole of Iraq is suffering.Jordan granted asylum to the Kamel brothers, and there they began to cooperate with UNSCOM and its director Rolf Ekéus, the American CIA and the British MI6.

Hussein's defection presented a major problem for those seeking to overthrow the Iraqi government based on the threat of its WMD program.

[6] According to an alternative version of events, Kamel and his sons were killed less than 24 hours following the divorce decrees, in a gun battle with other cousins trying to regain their clan honor in the eyes of Saddam.

In a 25 January 1999 report to the U.N. Security Council, UNSCOM declared that the history of the Iraqi weapons inspections "must be divided into two parts, separated by the events following the departure from Iraq, in August 1995, of Lt. Gen. Hussein Kamel."