- DUBAI - Saddam Hussein must
have been drugged before he was captured by US forces, the ousted dictator's
eldest daughter, Raghad, told Al-Arabiya television on Tuesday.
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- "How do you believe they can capture him if they
didn't drug him? I don't doubt it, I'm sure that they couldn't (have captured
him otherwise)," she said, speaking by telephone from Jordan, where
she was granted asylum after the US-led war to oust Saddam.
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- "Saddam Hussein is still my father. Every honourable
person, and every person who knows him or knew him ... knows that the person
on the television was a drugged Saddam Hussein," she said.
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- "The truth is that I am proud that this person is
my father," Raghad said of the 66-year-old former Iraqi president
who was captured by US troops late on Saturday.
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- "We all know the intention of the way he was displayed,
where is the democracy, where is the immunity that state leaders are granted?
A lion remains a lion even when he is captured," Raghad said.
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- "His three daughters Raghad, Rana and Hala ask for
a just international trial. He should not be tried by the Iraqi Governing
Council ... and we have the right to defend our father."
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- She said Saddam's immediate family would hire a lawyer
in his defence.
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- "How can we not hire a lawyer? This is the minimum
right we owe him as his daughters."
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- A sister of Saddam has demanded that Saddam be tried
before the world court and also said he was drugged by US forces before
his capture, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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- "We do not want a trial in Iraq. We demand a fair
trial at the International Court of Justice (in The Hague) in the presence
of Arab and foreign lawyers," Nawal Ibrahim al-Hasan was quoted as
saying by the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
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