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Saddam's girls may seek asylum
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/06/03 11:05  Shanghai Daily

  Britain has not received asylum applications from two daughters of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the government said yesterday following a published report that the women hope to move there.

  Two of Saddam's three daughters - Raghad and Rana - are living with their nine children in a home in Baghdad which has no electric power, according to a report in the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat.

  The newspaper quoted Izzi-Din Mohammed Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of the deposed Iraqi president, as saying he would return to London in a week to try to help the women get asylum in Britain.

  Any such application would be highly sensitive for Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, which has been trying to significantly cut the number of asylum-seekers reaching Britain.

  "We have not received any application," said a spokesman for the Home Office.

  "Under the Geneva Convention, the UK is not required to offer asylum to known war criminals or those who have breached the human rights of others, but I am not saying that this would apply in these two cases," the spokesman said.

  The women could get in touch with the British mission which recently opened in Baghdad, he said.

  "It would be highly unusual for someone to try to claim asylum from overseas. It's not completely unfeasible, but it's not likely," he said.

  If the women attempted to reach Britain by traveling through other countries, that could compromise any application for asylum.

  Al-Majid said that if the sisters couldn't move to Britain, they hope to stay in the Arab world, the newspaper reported.

  Al-Majid is also a cousin of the women's late husbands, brothers Lieutenant General Hussein Kamel and Saddam Kamel, who defected to Jordan in 1995 and announced plans to work to overthrow Saddam.

  The two were lured back in February 1996 and ordered killed by Saddam on suspicion of passing information concerning Iraq's weapons programs to Western officials.

  Saddam's daughters "wash clothes by their own hands, cook their own food and clean the house by themselves and live without electricity," Al-Majid said. "They live in a severe psychological disorder."

  Saddam's third and youngest daughter, Hala, lived with her two sisters in Baghdad for a short time but left with her children to an unknown location, al-Majid said.

  Hala's husband, General Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, was No 10 on the list of 55 most-wanted former officials of the regime. He surrendered to US forces on May 17, the US Central Command said.




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