The woman whose life was shaped by Saddam

Who is she?

By AbigaillPublished 10 months ago • 4 min read

On the afternoon of April 9, 2003, U.S. and British coalition forces occupied Baghdad's central square. Iraqis who saw this scene also gathered in the square and tore down the statue of Saddam Hussein, which represents power. At the same time, a beautiful woman suppressed her fear and said in a simpler tone to the outside world, "In this life, I can only be Saddam's wife. The woman's name is Mancia Hazel.

In 1982, the proud Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, was frustrated by the impossibility of achieving his strategic goal of quickly conquering Iran. The vigilant guard captain chooses a girls' school in Baghdad to share the president's concerns.

Mansiah, 15, a senior at the school, hails from a region in southern Iraq called Mosul, where her father is the head of a large clan. Mansiah was smart from a young age and grew up to be a beautiful woman, loved by her father and her tribe.

It was the educational reforms introduced after Saddam Hussein became president that allowed the high-achieving Mansiya to get a better education at a girls' school in Baghdad. Clan up and down the love and her own beauty also let Mancia personality cheerful and generous.

Iraqis feared Saddam's bloodletting and adored the economic growth generated by oil revenues. When the teacher of the girls' school learned that the president was going to visit, he ordered all the students to meet with a complex mood, and Mancia, who had extraordinary beauty, was naturally arranged in the most prominent position.

Just like the phrase in the dream of red villas, jade met fairy flower, and met him in this life. The tradition of the Middle East is very important for the chastity of women, Mancia saw her father and brothers in the clan when she was young, although later enlightened, but to this girls' school in Baghdad to see a handful of men.

According to later CIA analyst John Nixon, "When I first met Saddam in prison, I met him expecting to meet the butcher of Iraq, but even in prison I confess to seeing a genial and charming Saddam.

15 years old is the same age as flowers, but also the age of love is extremely longing, Mancia is no exception, her eyes appeared a tall and handsome and complex experience tempered by the unique temperament of Saddam, she admitted that the first time on Saddam fell. Instead of being nervous or scared, she and her friends pointed to Saddam and talked.

Saddam was a complex man. Many things could be said about him, but few would say he was a womanizer. Mancia's performance was noticed by Saddam, who ordered his guards to summon her. Mancia's first words to Saddam were, "Welcome, Your Excellency, President.

The first meeting let Mancia more intoxicated with Saddam, so the initiative to Saddam love letter to show love. In fact, to relieve anxiety, Mancia's boldness made him feel like he saw the past himself, that's all, Mancia was just an interesting passer for him.

Where there is a will, there is a way. What is the Iraqi equivalent of this Chinese proverb? At the age of 17, in 1985, Mancia finally broke Saddam's heart and allowed her to be his wife. According to Middle Eastern tradition, a man can have four legal wives, and unfortunately Saddam already had four wives.

Mansiah's father, an influential sheikh in the Mosul area, could only watch with anger and resentment as his beloved daughter and Saddam, who was older than he, signed a secret marriage registration, but could not hold a grand wedding according to tradition.

Perhaps the Middle East tradition of educating women deep into the bone marrow, 17 years old is a carefree and free age, 17-year-old Mancia does not care whether it will be bound by nature, at this time Mancia can only stay in the traditional etiquette of Saddam arranged for her Baghdad Sheraton Hotel opposite the villa, daily life also give generous material treatment. However, as a prominent family in the Mosul area, these materials were not difficult for her.

The light in his eyes only focused on Saddam's Mancia to see Saddam felt full of happiness, for Saddam occasionally sent people to treat his father that he was the only Saddam, of course, the state and family affairs of the busy Saddam only occasionally to relax and pastime, this villa may be his palace, more likely to be his personal club.

Saddam's first wife, Sajida, was his first cousin, and her family was an important part of maintaining his power. As the most important person, she enjoyed the same power as Saddam. Sajida, out of traditional etiquette, did not confirm or deny Saddam's other three wives, but she was adamantly opposed to Saddam's Mancia, and when Sajida toured the villa, Mancia was deeply frightened, knowing that Sajida could make her disappear.

As Saddam's normally affable face darkened, Mancia said she felt "my knees shaking and I felt like I was in hell. In 1995, when Mansiah's brother Sultan was suspected of participating in a rebellion orchestrated by Saddam's son-in-law, Saddam turned around and deported Mansiah back to Mosul, ending his relationship with her.

After returning to the clan, Mancia bears all the gossip, suffers from the surveillance of Saddam's guards, from the clan up and down the favor of the boudoir in the eyes of the clan woman slutty, the tribe of men afraid of the influence of Saddam also dare not show her love.

Nawfal Al-Aqoub

After the fall of the Islamic State, Saddam's influence in Iraq has been completely wiped out, and Mansiah has solved the major life events, became the wife of former mayor of Mosul Nawfal al-Aqoub, and lives a happy life, but when Mansiah wakes up in the middle of the night, looking at her bald husband next to her pillow, will she still miss the tall, handsome and charming Saddam, who has been dead for 17 years?

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