Mixed fortunes for dictator's relatives

Published on Saturday 30 December 2006 12:07

HERE are the latest details on the fate of some of Saddam Hussein's relatives:

• Barzan Ibrahim, half brother and former intelligence chief, received the death sentence along with Saddam for 1982 killings of 148 Shia Muslims. He is set to be executed later this week.

• Ali al-Majid, cousin known as "Chemical Ali" for alleged role in use of chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds, on trial charged with genocide for crackdown on Kurds in 1987-88.

• Sajida Khairallah Tulfah, wife, believed to be in Qatar and sought by Iraqi government for allegedly supporting and financing terrorism in Iraq.

• Uday and Qusai Hussein, sons, and grandson Mustafa died July 2003 in a gun battle with US troops in Mosul.

• Raghad and Rana Saddam Hussein, daughters, along with their nine children, granted refuge in Jordan on humanitarian grounds in July 2003.

• Ayman Sabawi, nephew, escaped from Iraqi prison on December 9 where he was serving life for financing insurgents and possessing bombs.

• Mulhana Hamood Abdul Jabar, brother-in-law, arrested by US military in May 2003 in Tikrit.

• Lt Gen Hussein Kamel al-Majid and Saddam Kamel al-Majid, sons-in-law, executed at Saddam's order in February 1996 after returning from defection to Jordan.