Chairallah Talfah
Chairallāh Talfāh , or Tulfah, ( Arabic خير الله طلفاح, DMG Ḫair Allāh Ṭalfāḥ , also Khairallah ; * 1910 in al-Audscha ; † 1993 ) was Saddam Hussein's uncle and an officer in an Iraqi unit that was involved in the 1941 military coup against the regent Abd ul-Ilah . The "gray eminence" of the Takriti clan , as Yahia writes, about whom everything revolved. After leaving the army , he kept his clan afloat with road robbery and trade.
In 1955 he moved to Baghdad, like most of the Takriti clan. Talfah's eldest daughter, Sadschida Talfah , married Saddam Hussein in 1963, who was brought up by his uncle when he was 9 years old . Under Saddam Hussein, Talfah became governor of Baghdad. His son Adnan Chairallah , Minister of Defense under Saddam, was killed in a possibly fabricated helicopter crash in 1989.
In 1989, Udai Hussein , as Minister of Information, published his grandfather's pamphlets with the title: "Three things that God should not have created: Persians, Jews and blowflies."
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Latif Yahia / Karl Wendel: I was Saddam's son. As a doppelganger in the service of the Iraqi dictator Hussein . Goldmann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-442-15249-6 . Page 153.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Talfāh, Chairallāh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Talfah, Khairallah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi politician, "gray eminence" of the Takriti clan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | al-Audscha |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1993 |