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To: LindyBill who wrote (101616)	6/16/2003 3:53:30 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It's VERY difficult to understand a woman whose husband(and her children's father) was killed by her own father, to continue to say her father (Saddam) was a good father, and a good grandfather. She may be afraid for her life and that of her sister and their children. So she continues to say the above. If that is not the case, one wonders why anyone would believe anything she says. Raghad and Rana were reported to have been estranged from their father since the murder of their husbands, Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Saddam Kamel, both cousins of Saddam. Once head of Saddam's weapons procurement programme and one of the most powerful men in Iraq, Hussein Kamel became the country's highest-level defector when he and his brother fled to Jordan in August 1995, taking their families with them. Partly because of pressure from their wives they returned six months later, apparently believing that as the fathers of Saddam's grandsons, they would be forgiven. Instead they were murdered while their wives were visiting their father. Refusing to speak about her husband's killing, Raghad dismissed the notion that she had broken off relations with her father: "He is my father and I am his daughter. He was a good father and a good grandfather."