Walban Ibrahim al-Hassan, the former Iraqi interior minister and half-brother of Iraqi President [Saddam] Hussein, recovering at Bagdad hospital August 20. His son Ahmad sits next to him (R). Al-Hassan appeared on Iraqi television today to discount rumours that he and his son had been killed in a recent family feud. He discribed the defection of Husayn Kame Hasan as a traitor and a malicious tumour in the body of the family