Khairallah Talfah

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Khairallah Talfah (Arabic خير الله طلفاح) was an Iraqi Ba'ath Party official, and the maternal uncle and father-in-law of Saddam Hussein. He was the father of Sajida Talfah, Saddam's first wife, and of Adnan Khairallah, defense minister. Saddam would later make Khairallah Talfah mayor of Baghdad, but was forced to remove him due to Talfah's incredible corruption.

[edit] Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies

Talfah wrote the ten page pamphlet Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies in the 1940s. In 1981, following the start of the Iran-Iraq War, the Iraqi government publishing house Dar al-Hurriyya (House of Liberty) republished it, and the Iraqi Ministry of Education distributed it as part of a textbook for school-boys. The work describes Jews as a "mixture of dirt and the leftovers of diverse people". [1]