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Daughter of Saddam Hussein
Rana Hussein
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Rana Hussein in the mid-late 1980s
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Born
| Rana Saddam Hussein
(
1969-07-25
)
July 25, 1969
(age 54)
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Nationality
| Iraqi
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Spouse
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(
m.
1986; died 1996)
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Children
| 4
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Parents
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Rana Saddam Hussein
(
Arabic
:
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) (born July 25, 1969) is the second-eldest daughter of the former
President of Iraq
,
Saddam Hussein
and his first wife,
Sajida Talfah
. Her older sister is
Raghad
and younger sister is
Hala Hussein
.
Biography
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In 1986, she married
Saddam Kamel
al-Majid, brother of
Hussein Kamel al-Majid
, her elder sister
Raghad
's husband. She has four children. She accompanied her husband to
Jordan
in 1995, where she lived from August 8 of that year to February 20, 1996. They returned to Iraq after receiving assurances from Saddam Hussein that he would pardon Kamel and his brother, Hussein Kamel al-Majid. 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 involvement in a plot to assassinate him.
On July 31, 2003, she went back to Jordan, where
King Abdullah
granted her family asylum.
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