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Saddam's Daughters Seek UK Asylum: Newspaper

Two of Saddam Hussein's daughters planned to seek asylum in Britain after the collapse of their father's regime, The Guardian newspaper reported on Monday.

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Two of Saddam Hussein's daughters planned to seek asylum in Britain after the collapse of their father's regime, The Guardian newspaper reported on Monday.

Izzi-Din Mohammed Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein, told London-based Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat that he was trying to arrange an asylum application for Raghad, 35, and Rana, 33, who were said to be living in a humble safe house in Baghdad, the newspaper said.

Al-Majid, a London-based exile who returned to Iraq in April, said Britain was at the top of the sisters' list of asylum destinations, followed by Egypt, Qatar or the United Arab Emirates.

He was quoted by the newspaper as saying that he met the sisters several times in the past month, but neither the sisters nor he had any idea where Saddam or his sons, Uday and Qusay, werehiding.

Al-Majid was also a cousin of the sisters' late husbands, brothers General Hussein Kamel and Saddam Kamel, who defected to Jordan in 1995. They were lured back in 1996 and killed shortly afterwards on Saddam's orders on suspicion of passing information about Iraq's weapons programs to western officials.

The Guardian quoted a Home Office spokesperson as saying: "Under the Geneva convention, the UK is not required to offer asylum to known war criminals or those who have breached the humanrights of others, but I am not saying this would apply in these cases."

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