Saga grew up in a conservative, upper class family in Baghdad and had already been married once and had two twin boys, before she met the man who was to become known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Her first husband was Saddam Hussein`s bodyguard and was killed fighting against American troops in Iraq just a year after the wedding.
There is a tradition in Iraq and in Muslim communities where married men marry widows, so that they can look after their children.
They believe it is a good deed that will be rewarded after death. In this way, Saga ended up married to al-Baghdadi.
"I didn`t notice that he was active in any way. I moved into his home and that`s where we lived. So many of us living together in the same apartment was tough. There was him, me and my children and his first wife and her children," explains Saga.
The man, who at that time was known as Hisham Mohammad, had not told his first wife that he was going to take another wife. And Saga says that she would prefer to forget her first meeting with al-Baghdadi`s first wife.
"No, I was not in love with him. I didn`t love him. He was an enigmatic person. You couldn`t have a discussion or hold a normal conversation with him.”
“In the evening, when he came home, we would usually eat dinner together. He just asked about things and told me to fetch things. He gave orders, nothing more," she says.
She left after just three months of marriage, not knowing that she was pregnant. Their common daughter Hagar is now eight-years-old.
After all her troubles in Iraq and Syria, where she moved after the invasion in Iraq, Saga says she now wants to live in Europe, not in an Arab country.
Saga is now married again and has another son, her fourth child."No bearer of burdens shall bear another`s burden," she said, ending the interview with a verse from the Qur`an.
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