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Saddam Hussein denies his relatives are leaving Iraq
Baghdad, Apr 01: The office of the Iraqi President denied today reports from the pentagon that members of Saddam Hussein`s family were trying to flee the country.
Baghdad, Apr 01: The office of the Iraqi President
denied today reports from the pentagon that members of Saddam
Hussein's family were trying to flee the country.
"The small family of our leader Saddam Hussein is part of
the extended family that is the Iraqi people and as Saddam
Hussein has tied his fate to the fate of his people ... The
fate of his family cannot be separated from that of the
extended family," a spokesman for the president's office said,
quoted by state television.
The denial came after US defence department spokeswoman
Victoria Clarke said, "We have seen evidence that family
members are fleeing the country, or trying to flee the
country."
However Clarke admitted us intelligence had seen "neither
hide nor hair" of Saddam or his two sons since bombing raids
on his compound on the first day of the war on March 20.
They have however appeared on Iraqi state television and
ministers have denied reports they have been killed or
wounded.
Bureau Report