Raghad Hussein
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Raghad Hussein (born 1967?), is the oldest daughter of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
She was married to Hussein Kamel, a high-profile Iraqi defector who shared weapons secrets with UNSCOM, the CIA and MI6 and was killed on Saddam's orders after being persuaded to return to Iraq, believing himself to have been pardoned. Raghad's sister, Rana Hussein was married to Hussein Kamel's brother Saddam Kamel who suffered the same fate.
As of June 2004 she was living in exile in Amman, Jordan and organising a legal team to defend her father, to whom she remains devoted.
Quotes
- "Saddam was tranquillised when captured [...] He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful."
- Raghad Hussein, speaking to Al-Jazeera, December, 2003.
External link
Interview - The Telegraph (UK Newspaper) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/06/wirq206.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/06/ixworld.html)