Samira Chahbandar

Samira Chahbandar (in, Samîrah Châhbandar ) is the second woman of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

She is Chiite. She would have been married with Nur AD-DIN have-Saffi, director of the Iraqi Airways, of which she has a son Muhammad Nur AD-DIN have-Saffi, and which she is divorced. Decorator, it was charged to embellish one of the palates of Saddam Hussein. This last noticed it. Samira would be of Lebanese origin and would have been almost torn off with her husband by Saddam.

It decided to marry it in secrecy. This discretion is justified by multiple reasons:

Wanting to appear laic and modern, Saddam Hussein preferred not to join the image of a retrograde bigamist.
It feared also the reaction of his first wife Sajida, and especially of her sons Odai Hussein and Qusay Hussein.
Samira being Shiite, its “entry” by alliance in a sunnite family very attached to her dogma could only cause some disorders.

It seems that she gave to Saddam Hussein a son: Ali or Haydar (Shiite first name, one of the nicknames of the Imam Ali). But there remains uncertainties on this wire: it is not known if it were born in 1980 or 1983, and even if he is not rather the son of Raghad, therefore the grandson of Saddam.

One a date of marriage, 1986, but is it mentions of the secret marriage or a date where it would have been made public?
The scruples of Saddam Hussein on the monogamy disappeared around the years 1980, and did not prevent it from having to four wives: in addition to both already quoted, one still mentions Nidal Al-Hamdani (married in 1990), and Wafa el-Mullah Al-Howeish (married in 2002).

Currently, it is not known where Samira and Ali-Haydar are taken refuge.

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