Jordan denies placing limits on Saddam's two daughters
Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 12/25/2003

The official spokeswoman for the Jordanian Government, Asmaa Khuder, has denied news that Jordan had given placed conditions and restrictions on Raghada and Rana Saddam Hussein, the two daughters of the toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, on any press statements over the capture of their father that they may issue.

The spokeswoman said that Raghad and Rana Saddam Hussein have not violated hosting "traditions," nor caused any political embarrassment to Jordan because of their statements on the capture of their father, so far, noting her country is taking into account their humanitarian condition.

Asmaa Khuder justified the fuss raised recently on the existence of Saddam's two daughters in Amman, and confirmed that Jordan's hosting them is based on mere humanitarian criterion, and has nothing to do with political objectives. This was made in reply to accusations made by certain Iraqi figures such as Ahmed Chalabi, who accused Saddam's two daughters of playing a political role in the Iraqi crisis, and in collaborating with what he called terrorists.

Khuder stressed that Jordan did not, and will not, ask Rana and Raghad to leave its territories, but she noted that Jordan does not consider them prisoners, nor prevents them from talking to the mass media, and will force them to another place if they wish so.

World news agency quoted the Jordanian spokeswoman as saying yesterday that it had asked Saddam Hussein's two daughters not to use Jordan as a place for political statements, and that their statements in the future would be limited to humanitarian nature rather than politics.

Raghad Saddam Hussein made press statements following the detention of her father, in which she said that he was drugged when he was captured. She called for a legitimate and just trial for her father, and not to be sentenced by the Interim Council which was appointed by the American occupation, as she alleged.

Raghad who lives with her sister Rana and their 9 children in Amman, hosted by the Jordanian king Abdullah II, expressed desire to visit her captured father held by the American army.

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