Hala Saddam Hussein (, born 1972) is the third daughter of the former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein and his first wife Sajida Talfah. Hala was said to be Saddam's favorite daughter. Very little firm information is known about her as her father never permitted any photographs or records of her to be published, and whatever records that remained of her were ordered to be destroyed when American troops were reaching Baghdad in 2003. Her father sent her to live with her maternal grandfather Khairallah Talfah for her safety, due to the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war and the Persian Gulf War. She despised her older brother Uday because he often raised his voice to his mother and frightened young Hala. Saddam arranged for her to marry General Jamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti in 1998. The couple have two children.
In 2003, when United States President George W. Bush ordered the Hussein family to leave Iraq within 48 hours, Hala and her sisters, as well as her mother, fled Iraq. Although her sisters went to Jordan, where they were granted asylum, Hala is believed to have gone to Qatar with her mother, Sajida. This is thought to be true, as an interview with Raghad and Rana took place in Jordan, in which Hala was not present. Her husband surrendered to Coalition Forces in Baghdad on 17 May 2003.
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