Saddam's Daughter To Be Tried For Terrorism
Less than a year after her father was sent to the gallows, Saddam Hussein's daughter is facing charges that could lead to her execution. Raghad Hussein, 38, has been charged with financing the insurgents who have bedeviled Iraq since shortly after her father's regime was toppled in 2003, an Interior Ministry spokesman said today. Hussein is believed to be living in Amman, Jordan, as a guest of King Abdullah II. The spokesman, Abdul Kereem Khalaf, said the Iraqi Judicial Authority issued an arrest warrant for Hussein a year ago, but that it was only being made public now after Interpol, the international police agency, issued a worldwide notice that Iraq was seeking her. "We have a whole file of evidence against her," Khalaf said. "It is with the court. If you have the right connections you can see it. But basically she is accused of mass killings of Iraqis by funding terrorist groups." Khalaf wouldn't specify which terrorist groups Hussein is accuse...