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08-01-2003, 07:04 PM
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Raghad Saddam Hussein
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Rana Saddam Hussein
AMMAN - Saddam Hussein's daughters told television interviewers on Friday that they miss their father, and that Baghdad's fall was so shockingly quick because the Iraqi leader had been betrayed.
Raghad Saddam Hussein and her sister Rana spoke with Arab TV station Al-Arabiya and CNN on Friday, a day after they were granted asylum in Jordan by King Abdullah.
The women, who were reported to have been living in modest conditions in Baghdad since the fall of the Iraqi capital, spoke from a royal palace in Amman, where they were staying with their nine children.
Wearing black, with white veils as a sign of mourning for their brothers Uday and Qusay, who were killed last week in a shootout with U.S. forces, the sisters appeared mostly calm and composed, but choked up when speaking about their family.
The described Saddam as a good father with a big heart and said they miss him.
Unlike Saddam's sons, the daughters weren't considered to be key members of the regime, and aren't wanted by coalition forces. In fact, Raghad and Rana are often considered to be among Saddam's victims, as he ordered their husbands killed in 1996.
The last time they saw Saddam was a week before the start of the war.
The fall of Baghdad on April 9 was a shock, they said. The only explanation for the collapse, they said, was that some of Saddam's trusted aides must have betrayed him and their country.
At noon that day, they said Saddam sent a car for them with orders for them to flee the city. Raghad said those moments were terrible.
Saddam tape played on Al-Jazeera
Earlier on Friday, Al-Jazeera TV played what is purported to be a new audio tape of Saddam himself.
The voice on the tape urges Iraqis to fight the U.S. forces occupying Iraq and throw them out of the country.
"Our faith is great that one day the occupation army will falter," it says, "and that victory is possible at any moment."
Written by CBC News Online staff
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Raghad Saddam Hussein
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/photos/hussein_rana030801.jpg
Rana Saddam Hussein
AMMAN - Saddam Hussein's daughters told television interviewers on Friday that they miss their father, and that Baghdad's fall was so shockingly quick because the Iraqi leader had been betrayed.
Raghad Saddam Hussein and her sister Rana spoke with Arab TV station Al-Arabiya and CNN on Friday, a day after they were granted asylum in Jordan by King Abdullah.
The women, who were reported to have been living in modest conditions in Baghdad since the fall of the Iraqi capital, spoke from a royal palace in Amman, where they were staying with their nine children.
Wearing black, with white veils as a sign of mourning for their brothers Uday and Qusay, who were killed last week in a shootout with U.S. forces, the sisters appeared mostly calm and composed, but choked up when speaking about their family.
The described Saddam as a good father with a big heart and said they miss him.
Unlike Saddam's sons, the daughters weren't considered to be key members of the regime, and aren't wanted by coalition forces. In fact, Raghad and Rana are often considered to be among Saddam's victims, as he ordered their husbands killed in 1996.
The last time they saw Saddam was a week before the start of the war.
The fall of Baghdad on April 9 was a shock, they said. The only explanation for the collapse, they said, was that some of Saddam's trusted aides must have betrayed him and their country.
At noon that day, they said Saddam sent a car for them with orders for them to flee the city. Raghad said those moments were terrible.
Saddam tape played on Al-Jazeera
Earlier on Friday, Al-Jazeera TV played what is purported to be a new audio tape of Saddam himself.
The voice on the tape urges Iraqis to fight the U.S. forces occupying Iraq and throw them out of the country.
"Our faith is great that one day the occupation army will falter," it says, "and that victory is possible at any moment."
Written by CBC News Online staff