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Saddam's Daughters
Aired August 01, 2003 - 11:00 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Up first, Saddam's daughters, safe from the reach of their father, the two women this hour are giving their first interviews since their surprise escape to Jordan.
Our Jane Arraf is in Amman with some more details on that. She joins us by phone.
Hello.
JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Daryn.
Well, the women, according to people with them, are a little bit shell-shocked. But Jordan officials who brought them here say that they can stay as long as they want.
Now they were allowed to come here because they asked to come, and given that they needed refuge, the Jordanian royal family decided that being women and children, they belonged here. They will be giving interviews and telling us hopefully what they have been doing in the last few months. They have been on kind of a difficult trail from Iraq to a third country, possibly back again and now here under the protection of the Jordanian royal family and the Jordanian government -- Daryn.
KAGAN: And as we understand it, they didn't come alone, they came with nine children between them.
ARRAF: That's right, nine of Saddam Hussein's grandchildren. Now, those are all the way from young children to teenagers, and they are seen very much as innocent victims of Saddam, a lot of the way that a lot of other Iraqis were.
Now one of the questions will be do these women know anything about where their father might be? A question to that is probably not really. They have not been close since their husbands were executed, believed to have been at the order of their father. And with the direct implication of their brothers, their brothers, of course, were killed last week in a shootout with American forces, they are still officially in mourning over that.
KAGAN: All right. We will look forward to what these two daughters Rana and Raghad have to say later today from Amman, Jordan.
Thank you so much for that, Jane.
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Aired August 1, 2003 - 11:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Up first, Saddam's daughters, safe from the reach of their father, the two women this hour are giving their first interviews since their surprise escape to Jordan.
Our Jane Arraf is in Amman with some more details on that. She joins us by phone.
Hello.
JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Daryn.
Well, the women, according to people with them, are a little bit shell-shocked. But Jordan officials who brought them here say that they can stay as long as they want.
Now they were allowed to come here because they asked to come, and given that they needed refuge, the Jordanian royal family decided that being women and children, they belonged here. They will be giving interviews and telling us hopefully what they have been doing in the last few months. They have been on kind of a difficult trail from Iraq to a third country, possibly back again and now here under the protection of the Jordanian royal family and the Jordanian government -- Daryn.
KAGAN: And as we understand it, they didn't come alone, they came with nine children between them.
ARRAF: That's right, nine of Saddam Hussein's grandchildren. Now, those are all the way from young children to teenagers, and they are seen very much as innocent victims of Saddam, a lot of the way that a lot of other Iraqis were.
Now one of the questions will be do these women know anything about where their father might be? A question to that is probably not really. They have not been close since their husbands were executed, believed to have been at the order of their father. And with the direct implication of their brothers, their brothers, of course, were killed last week in a shootout with American forces, they are still officially in mourning over that.
KAGAN: All right. We will look forward to what these two daughters Rana and Raghad have to say later today from Amman, Jordan.
Thank you so much for that, Jane.
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