Saddam's eldest daughter accuses his aides of "betrayal"
Man, those Hussein family reunions must have been something else, eh? Of course, now they're a couple brothers down, and the family patriarch is nowhere to be found. At least the daughters are still living large.
Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter, Raghad, accused his aides of "betraying" the deposed Iraqi president and causing the fall of Baghdad to US-led forces in April.
"The main betrayal came from the people whom he trusted fully, those he considered his right hand... (In fact) they betrayed their country before betraying Saddam Hussein," she told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite news channel in Amman.
Raghad, who arrived in the Jordanian capital with her sister Rana and their nine children on Thursday after being granted refuge, termed the sudden fall of Baghdad on April 9 "a great shock."
Describing the hours leading up to the abrupt end of her father's 24-year rule, Raghad said she spent them in Baghdad's posh Mansur district with Rana and their children, knowing it was "all over."
Raghad said she last saw Saddam, whose whereabouts have been unknown since his ouster, five days before the start of the US-led war on March 20, during a family meeting at her mother's palace in Baghdad during which the former Iraqi strongman was typically brimming with confidence.
"I miss you very much, Dad," she said, wiping away tears when asked what she would tell her father.
Jeez, enough already...I'm getting all misty here....
Of course, this is the same father who lured his son-in-laws back to Iraq and then murdered them. You'd think this would be the source of some tension in the family, no?
