- Rana Hussein
Rana Saddam Hussein (
Arabic language رنا صدام حسين, born 1971) is the second-eldest daughter of the former president ofIraq ,Saddam Hussein and his first wife, Sajida Khairallah Talfah. Her older sister is Raghad and younger sister isHala Hussein .In 1986, she married
Saddam Kamel al-Majid , brother ofHussein Kamel , her elder sister Raghad's husband, to whom she bore four children. She accompanied her husband toJordan in 1995, where she lived fromAugust 8 of that year toFebruary 20 ,1996 . They returned to Iraq after receiving assurances from Saddam Hussein that he would pardon Kamel and his brother,Hussein Kamel . Despite this promise, before the end of the month both Kamels were shot and killed by other clan members who declared them traitors.In 1997, her brother
Uday Hussein put Rana and her sister Raghad under house arrest for being involved in a plot to assassinate him.On
July 31 ,2003 , she went back to Jordan, where the king, Abdullah, granted her family asylum.Rana is the mother of three sons, Ahmad, Saad and Hussein, and a daughter named Nabea.
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