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Rana Hussein
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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>In 1986, she married <a href="/facts/Saddam_Kamel_al-Majid/TJLHy6LV">Saddam Kamel al-Majid</a>, brother of <a href="/facts/Hussein_Kamel_al-Majid/rr5GPvph">Hussein Kamel al-Majid</a>, her elder sister <a href="/facts/Raghad_Hussein/EMvncIkt">Raghad</a>'s husband. She has four children. She accompanied her husband to <a href="/facts/Jordan/JC5sS1oJ">Jordan</a> in 1995, where she lived from 8 August of that year to 20 February 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 Saddam Kamel al-Majid and Hussein Kamel al-Majid were shot and killed by other clan members who declared them traitors. </p><p>In 1997, her brother <a href="/facts/Uday_Hussein/fLQxRVtX">Uday Hussein</a> put Rana and her sister Raghad under house arrest for involvement in a plot to assassinate him. </p><p>On 31 July 2003, she went back to Jordan, where <a href="/facts/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan/4xup9YHl">King Abdullah</a> granted her family asylum.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p><p>As of 2023, she still lives in Jordan.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Jane Arraf (2003-08-02). "Daughter: Saddam 'had a big heart' – August 2, 2003". CNN.com. Retrieved 2017-05-23. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/01/sprj.irq.saddam.daughters/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/01/sprj.irq.saddam.daughters/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Iraq Sentences Saddam Hussein's Daughter for Promoting Banned Political Party". Voice of America. 22 October 2023. <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/iraq-sentences-saddam-hussein-s-daughter-for-promoting-banned-political-party/7321724.html" target="_blank">https://www.voanews.com/a/iraq-sentences-saddam-hussein-s-daughter-for-promoting-banned-political-party/7321724.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>