Sajida Talfah (arabisk: ساجدة خيرالله طلفاح; født 24. juni 1937) var den tidligereirakiske presidentenSaddam Husseins første kone.[2][3] Hun var også hans kusine.[4] Hun ble gift med Saddam i1963 ved et arrangert ekteskap.[4] Da han mot hennes vilje inngikk et ekteskap nummer 2 på 1980-tallet, tok hun ut separasjon.[2]
Sammen med Saddam Hussein fikk Sajida Talfah de to sønneneUday ogQusay og de tre døtreneRaghad,Rana ogHala.
I 2003 flyktet hun fra Irak etter Saddams fall.[5] Samme år ble det kjent at hun i likhet med døtrene Raghdad og Rana ville søke asyl i Storbritannia. Britiske myndigheter gjorde det klart at de ikke ville innvilge asyl til noen av Saddams familiemedlemmer.[2][6] Etter at Saddam falt og Sajida hadde flyktet, skal det ha blitt funnet enorme mengder smykker som hadde tilhørt Sajida Talfah, på Saddams gård iTikrit.[7]
^abc«No UK asylum for Saddam's family».BBC News (på engelsk). 5. juni 2003. Besøkt 6. april 2021. «Mr al-Majid said the women would definitely need financial help if they moved to the UK. | He said: "As far as money goes they are in a really bad way." | According to the Daily Mail the women's mother, 66-year-old Sajida Hussein, is also hoping to come to the UK. | Sajida, who separated from Saddam in the 1980s and is also the mother of notorious sons Uday and Qusay, is said to be living with Rana and Raghad.»
^«Saddam Hussein's wife, saddening story on the mystery she underwent in her Marriage with Saddam».ke.opera.news. Opera News. Arkivert fraoriginalen 5. februar 2021. Besøkt 6. april 2021. «Sajida Talfah was the first wife of Saddam Hussein. Apart from being Saddam's wife she was also his cousin. The former First Lady of Iraq was born June 24, 1937 and got married in 1958 to Saddam. They were blessed with five children: Uday Hussein (deceased), Qusay Hussein (deceased), Raghad Hussein, Rana Hussein and Hala Hussein.»
^«Saddam's daughters 'want home in Leeds'».The Irish Times (på engelsk). 5. juni 2003. Besøkt 6. april 2021. «Raghad and Rana Hussein are said to be planning to apply for asylum to live in Leeds, close to a cousin of their father. The news comes as a separate report revealed Saddam's wife, Sajida, also plans to seek asylum in Britain.»
^«New details emerge about Saddam’s arrest, those who gave him up».Al Arabiya English (på engelsk). 25. desember 2018. Besøkt 6. april 2021. «To mark 12th anniversary of the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the US magazine ESQUIRE published what it said were new details of the operation known as Red Dawn, during which US forces found the late president hiding in a farm near Tikrit in early December, 2003. (---) The other buried treasure was huge amounts of jewelry belonging to Saddam’s wife, Sajida Talfah, adding up to “about half a dozen garbage bags full of gems.”»
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