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Lifestyles of Saddam`s daughters turn from riches to rags
Cairo, Jun 01: Saddam Hussein`s fall from power has hit home for two of his daughters, who have gone from living in palaces to two cramped rooms in a humble Baghdad home with their nine children, a relative said in remarks published today.
Cairo, Jun 01: Saddam Hussein's fall from power has hit home for two of his daughters, who have gone from living in palaces to two cramped rooms in a humble Baghdad home with their nine children, a relative said in remarks published today.
Izzi-din Mohammed Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of the deposed Iraqi president, met two of Saddam's three daughters - Raghad and Rana - several times in the Iraqi capital last month, the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reported.
Al-Majid also said neither he nor the two daughters knew of the whereabouts of Saddam and his two sons.
Al-Majid is also the cousin of the women's late husbands, brothers Lt Gen Hussein Kamel and Saddam Kamel, who defected to Jordan in 1995. They were lured back in February 1996 and killed shortly after on the Iraqi leader's orders on suspicion of passing on information concerning Iraq's weapons programmes to Western officials.
Al-Majid told Asharq al-Awsat yesterday in a telephone interview in Baghdad that Saddam's daughters were "very enraged for what had happened to Iraq and I saw the tears in their eyes, especially when we talked about the war and the fall of the regime."
Raghad, Rana and their nine children, long accustomed to living in palaces and being served by hired staff, now lived in two rooms of a small house owned by a trusted middle-class family, al-Majid said.
Saddam's daughters now "wash clothes by their own hands, cook their own food and clean the house by themselves and live without electricity," he said. "They live in a severe psychological disorder."
Bureau Report
Al-Majid also said neither he nor the two daughters knew of the whereabouts of Saddam and his two sons.
Al-Majid is also the cousin of the women's late husbands, brothers Lt Gen Hussein Kamel and Saddam Kamel, who defected to Jordan in 1995. They were lured back in February 1996 and killed shortly after on the Iraqi leader's orders on suspicion of passing on information concerning Iraq's weapons programmes to Western officials.
Al-Majid told Asharq al-Awsat yesterday in a telephone interview in Baghdad that Saddam's daughters were "very enraged for what had happened to Iraq and I saw the tears in their eyes, especially when we talked about the war and the fall of the regime."
Raghad, Rana and their nine children, long accustomed to living in palaces and being served by hired staff, now lived in two rooms of a small house owned by a trusted middle-class family, al-Majid said.
Saddam's daughters now "wash clothes by their own hands, cook their own food and clean the house by themselves and live without electricity," he said. "They live in a severe psychological disorder."
Bureau Report