Last week, an Iraqi woman in Germany unveiled documents she said proved she was the biological daughter of the late Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, Jordanian Arabic daily al-Ghad reports.
Identified by al-Ghad only as Nana, the woman presented documents showing she was born in 1984 in an area near Tikrit, an Iraqi city some 90 miles northwest of the capital Baghdad the hometown of Saddam.
According to the documents, the 32-year-old was born to Salma Asaad Saeed. The birth certificate's father field shows the name "Saddam Huseein Al Majeed," but does not have anything written in the field listing his occupation. Other documents revealed a DNA test linking Nana to Saddam, carried out by a German federal court and American authorities. An Iraqi embassy stamp also dons one one the documents, al-Ghad reports, with a date from December.
Today, Nana reportedly lives currently in Germany outside the spotlight.
Since he was deposed in Iraq, Saddam's relatives and close associates have been the subject of several headlines, and rumors. He had five known chidlren, two of whom —Uday and Qusay, his sons—were killed by US forces in Iraq in 2003. Two of Saddam's three surviving daughters, Raghdad and Rana, received amnesty in Jordan that same year. The youngest, Hala, remained in Iraq.
If proven correct, Nana would be the youngest daughter of the late Iraqi leader.
