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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.
May 7, 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,...
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 (Arabic language: عدنان خير الله طلفاح ; 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. He held several titles and was a member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council.
- 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...
May 7, 1989 · Iraqi Gen. Adnan Khairallah, defense minister for 10 years and President Saddam Hussein’s closest confidant, was buried in a state funeral after he was killed in a helicopter crash in northern...
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May 7, 1989 · Iraq's enemy Iran claimed the minister was murdered. Baghdad Radio broadcast a statement from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announcing the death on Friday of Lt. Gen. Adnan Khairallah, 49, who the official Iraqi News Agency described as a brother-in-law and cousin of Hussein.
