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Adnan Khairallah (Arabic: عدنان خير الله طلفاح, romanized: ʿAdnān Khayr Allāḥ; c. 1939 – 4 May 1989) was an Iraqi military officer and Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law (Sajida Talfah's brother and Khairallah Talfah's son) and cousin.
Adnan Khairallah (in arabo عدنان خير الله طلفاح ?; Tikrit, 1939 – Mosul, 4 maggio 1989) è stato un generale e politico iracheno, cognato e cugino di Saddam Hussein (fratello di Sajida Talfah e figlio di Khairallah Talfah). Ricoprì diverse alte cariche politiche e fu membro del Consiglio del Comando Rivoluzionario dell'Iraq.
7 mag 1989 · Gen. Adnan Khairallah, Deputy Commander in Chief of Iraq's armed forces and Defense Minister, was killed on Friday in a helicopter crash in a sandstorm in northern Iraq, President Saddam...
19 mag 2024 · - 5 maggio 1989: il ministro della Difesa iracheno, gen Adnan Khairallah, muore in un incidente aereo: il suo elicottero, in volo tra Mosul e Baghdad, cade durante una tempesta di sabbia.
- Early Life and Education
- Ba'ath Party
- Rift with Saddam
- Death and Aftermath
Khairallah was born in Tikrit in 1939, the son of Khairallah Talfah, an Arab nationalist officer in the Iraqi Army who was later involved in the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état and the ensuing Anglo-Iraqi War. His father was also the maternal uncle of Saddam Hussein, whom would later marry Khairallah's siter, Sajida Talfah.Khairallah attended the Baghdad Mi...
Khairallah joined the Iraqi branch of the Ba'ath Party in 1956. He was arrested in 1959 following the an unsuccessful attempt by the party to assassinate then Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim. Khairallah would later go on to play a role in the 1963 and 1968coups that brought the Ba'ath party to power. In 1977 Khairallah was appointed as the new Mi...
In November 1988 Uday Hussein, Khairallah's nephew, was arrested under orders from Saddam Hussein following an incident where Uday was accused of killing an officerin Saddam's Presidential Bodyguard. The scandal caused a rift in the family, with Uday's mother and Khairallah's sister, Sajida, appealing to Khairallah for help. Khairallah then disappe...
On 7 May 1989 Saddam Hussein announced that Khairallah had died two days earlier, on May 5, when a helicopter he was travelling on crashed. Khairallah had been travelling from Baghdad to Iraqi Kurdistan to inspect army positions when he diverted his flight to meet several members of the Presidential family who were in the mountain resort of Sarsang...
Sajida Khairallah Talfah (Arabic: ساجدة خير الله طلفاح, romanized: Sājidah Khayr Allāh Ṭilfāḥ; born c. 1935) is the widow of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and mother of two sons (Uday and Qusay) and three daughters (Raghad, Rana, and Hala) with him.
Adnan Khairallah was an Iraqi military officer and Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law and cousin. He held several titles and was a member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council. He also served as the Defence Minister of Iraq from 1979 until his death a decade later, being appointed days after Saddam Hussein succeeded to the Presidency.
