Raghad Hussein

Raghad Saddam Hussein , in Arab: rear RTL رغدصدامحسين (born on September 2nd 1968 -) is elder girls of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein with Sadjida Talfah, his first wife, of which it had two wire (Odai and Qusay) and three girls (Raghad, Rana and Hala).

She was married with Hussein Kamel, while Rana, his/her sister, was married with the brother of Hussein, Saddam Kamel. Hussein Kamel and Raghad had five children, three Ali wire, Saddam and Wahej, and two girls, Haris and Banan.

The two sisters and their husbands were flee towards the Jordan in 1995. They are remained there August 8th 1995 until the February 20th 1996. Hussein was regarded by Iraq as a traitor, to have communicated military secrecies with UNSCOM, the CIA and MI6. Persuaded to return to Iraq by a promise of forgiveness, the two sisters were separated from their husbands, Hussein and Saddam Kamal Al-Majid, who were carried out like their father, mother and sisters in the house of family Al-Majid. One believed the son of Raghad and Kamal, Ali massacred him also, but it seems that he is always alive, under the name of Ali Hussein.

The July 31st 2003 Raghad, Rana and their nine children are flee through Syria until Amman (capital of Jordan), where the king Abdallah II of Jordan their gave asylum.

Since June 2004 it organized a team of legists to defend his father, to which it remains devoted.

What she said

  • "It is thought that my father worries little about the human rights, but in addition to the details, the Americans should act with humanity with its family, because we are human beings. Saddam has three girls who have children, me, five, Rena four, and Hauled two. Our father is very expensive to us. His/her petis-children like it much. Why is there no place here for a little humanité ? " Raghad Hussein in Jordan

Aimee of her father

Raghad is said the most liked of all the children of Saddam and she repeats that each time they gathered to eat, his/her father fixed it glance to say to his mother: " didn't I say you that the girls are better than the boys? "

See too

  • Samira Chahbandar, second woman of Saddam Hussein
  • Nidal Al-Hamdani, third woman of Saddam Hussein
  • Wafa el-Mullah Al-Howeish, fourth wife (marriage in 2002).

External bonds

  • Interview - '' The Telegraph '' (newspaper of the United Kingdom)

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