Khairallah Talfah

Khairallah Talfah, or Tulfah, (Arabic خير الله طلفاح, DMG Hair Talfah Allah, Allah also Chair; * before 1941 ) was the uncle of Saddam Hussein and an Iraqi officer unit that participated in the 1941 military coup against the regent Abd ul- Ilah had. The " gray eminence " of the Takriti clan as Yahia writes, around which everything revolved. After leaving the army he held his clan with highway robbery and stores afloat.

In 1955 he moved to Baghdad, as the majority of the Takriti clan. Talfahs eldest daughter, Sajida Talfah, married in 1963 in an arranged marriage Saddam Hussein, who was educated from the age of 9 by his uncle. Under Saddam Hussein was Talfah governor of Baghdad. 1989 His son Adnan Khairallah, defense minister under Saddam came at a possibly fictitious helicopter crash.

Uday Hussein published in 1989 as minister of information pamphlets of his grandfather with the title: " Three things that God should not have created: . Persians, Jews and blowflies "