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Saddam Hussein's daughter: Trump has 'political sensibility'
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/22/middleeast/raghad-saddam-hussein-interview/index.html
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Raghad, who blames the US for the chaos that unraveled in her country, hopes that President-elect Donald Trump will be different from his predecessors.... "...But from what is apparent, this man has a high level of political sensibility, that is vastly different than the one who preceded him," she told CNN. "He exposed the mistakes of the others, specifically in terms of Iraq, which means he is very aware of the mistakes made in Iraq and what happened to my father."
"Of course I don't have any relations to this group [ISIS] and other extremist groups," she told CNN. "Moreover, the family's ideology has no similarities to that of extremist groups."
"As a proof to this, these groups only became powerful in Iraq after we left the country and our rule ended."
Self-declared jihadist groups sprung up in Iraq under the banner of fighting US army "infidels," and the country became a magnet for foreign fighters. ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, started as the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006 -- the year of Saddam Hussein's death -- and expanded to Syria in 2014, three years after the eruption of violence there.
Raghad praised her father's rule for the stability she believes it offered Iraq, saying ISIS and other groups would not have been able to enter had her father still been alive.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/22/middleeast/raghad-saddam-hussein-interview/index.html
Excerpts:
Raghad, who blames the US for the chaos that unraveled in her country, hopes that President-elect Donald Trump will be different from his predecessors.... "...But from what is apparent, this man has a high level of political sensibility, that is vastly different than the one who preceded him," she told CNN. "He exposed the mistakes of the others, specifically in terms of Iraq, which means he is very aware of the mistakes made in Iraq and what happened to my father."
"Of course I don't have any relations to this group [ISIS] and other extremist groups," she told CNN. "Moreover, the family's ideology has no similarities to that of extremist groups."
"As a proof to this, these groups only became powerful in Iraq after we left the country and our rule ended."
Self-declared jihadist groups sprung up in Iraq under the banner of fighting US army "infidels," and the country became a magnet for foreign fighters. ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, started as the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006 -- the year of Saddam Hussein's death -- and expanded to Syria in 2014, three years after the eruption of violence there.
Raghad praised her father's rule for the stability she believes it offered Iraq, saying ISIS and other groups would not have been able to enter had her father still been alive.
