Khairallah Talfah

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Khairallah Talfah (Arabic: خير الله طلفاح Khayr Allāh Ṭilfāḥ; 1910 – 20 April 1993) was an Iraqi military officer, politician, and author. He was the maternal uncle and father-in-law of Saddam Hussein. He was the father of Saddam's first wife Sajida Talfah and of Iraqi defense minister Adnan Khairallah. Under the Saddam regime, Talfah served as governor of Baghdad from 1979 to 1981, when he was removed from his position on charges of corruption. Born in the village of Al-Awja near Tikrit, many of Talfah's family members were Arab nationalists who opposed the Ottoman Empire. Talfah himself would also adopt the ideology against British rule in Iraq, eventually participating in the 1941 coup d'état, which brought the anti-British Rashid Ali al-Gaylani to power with aid from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. However, the British quickly suppressed al-Gaylani's government in the ensuing Anglo-Iraqi War, leading to Talfah's imprisonment. Following his release, his anti-British political activities...

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