Fedayeen Saddam

…leader Ṣaddām Ḥussein; members of Fedayeen Ṣaddām (Fidāʾī Ṣaddām) engaged in guerrilla operations against U.S. and British forces during the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003.

…Baʿath Party supporters, known as Saddam’s Fedayeen. British forces—which had deployed around the southern city of Basra—faced similar resistance from paramilitary and irregular fighters.

…Qusay took control of the fedayeen, as well as the elite Republican Guards and the National Security Council. By 2000 Uday reportedly had proved too unstable to retain his father’s trust, and Qusay was then generally regarded as Saddam’s heir apparent. Qusay was also reportedly targeted in would-be assassinations in…

…became head of the paramilitary fedayeen. He oversaw the punishment of disloyal soldiers during and after the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War and was thought to have been responsible for the deaths of his two brothers-in-law who had defected to Jordan and then returned to Iraq. He was left partially paralyzed…