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She was relaxing in the Dazzle beauty salon awaiting a hot stone body scrub when she got the call. It was obviously something important or her personal assistant would not have risked invoking her volcanic temper by passing her the mobile phone mid-treatment. Indeed it was. On the end of the line was a lawyer telling her that Saddam Hussein had lost his appeal and would hang by the end of the week. And the tall, slim woman who paled as she received this news was the tyrant's redoubtable eldest daughter Raghad. There was much arm-waving, cursing and shrieking. But...

DUBAI/BAGHDAD, 18 December 2003 — Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s eldest daughter, Raghad, said in remarks published yesterday that she was looking into the legalities of being able to visit her father, who was captured over the weekend by US forces in Iraq. “The legal measures are being studied to enable me to visit my father,” she told the Saudi-owned pan-Arab Al-Hayat newspaper. “Before his capture, there was never any contact with him and I don’t expect any contact now,” said Raghad, who lives in Jordan with her sister Rana and their children where they were granted asylum after the...