As for the Wife...

Uday and Qusay Hussein are accounted for, but what about Saddam's other close relatives? It's hard to say. A butler who worked for the Iraqi leader until the regime fell says Saddam's first wife Sajida and the couple's daughters--Raghad, Rana and Hala--fled to Syria after the war started but were deported back to Iraq. Another butler, who served Uday, says the women made their way to Mosul, where Uday and Qusay died, and remain there--presumably with at least some of their combined seven children--protected by a tribal chief.

According to a former secretary to Saddam, the strongman's second wife Samira is...

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