Saddam's daughters want bodies
01/08/2003 15:54  - (SA)  

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Amman - Saddam Hussein's two daughters will claim the bodies of their brothers Uday and Qusay in order to give them a decent Muslim burial, sources close to the women told AFP on Friday.

"Raghad and Rana Saddam Hussein intend to claim the corpses of their brothers who they wish to bury according to Islamic tradition," the source said on condition of anonymity.

The daughters of the ousted Iraqi president, who have been granted refuge in Jordan, are prepared to bury the hatchet posthumously and carry out the family duty by giving their brothers a proper funeral after their killing in a shoot-out in Mosul 10 days ago, "despite differences in the past between the two sisters and their brothers".

"Contacts are already under way with the Americans to that end," the source added.

Raghad and Rana had been living as virtual recluses in Iraq with their mother since February 1996, the source indicated, when both their husbands were executed on Saddam's orders.

"They had received assurances from their brothers before the return to Iraq of their husbands who had defected to Jordan six months earlier, and only realised later that it had been a trap for which they never forgave them."

Raghad and Rana had been in mourning ever since and their relations with their father and brothers were described as "frosty and infrequent". - Sapa-AFP

- SAPA

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