How Baghdad Has Changed, the Book of Khairallah........
“Thousands demonstrated in Baghdad against the possibility of allowing banned pro-Baath politicians from contesting the March elections. Governor of Baghdad Salah AbdelRazaq told the throng that ‘we will start a campaign to find all Baathists and fire them from government departments……We will not allow this plot to have them to run…..”……..”
I think he was getting carried away, trying to score electoral points.
But the Iraqi capital has sure come a long from since the days when Saddam had appointed his uncle and father-in-law as governor. Khairallah Talfah was a former army man and, oddly, a former teacher with pro-Nazi and fascist tendencies, like all Baathists. The Baath often used socialist slogans and jargons, as well as fascist slogans, but it was, in its Iraqi incarnation, a Neo-Nazi movement. Uncle Tulfah is well known for writing a 1981 booklet famously titled “Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies”. Gives you an idea about the mental condition of some people in a certain rough area of Iraq that stretches from Tikrit through Falluja, Samarra and points west, including most of al-Anbar. Khairallah' son Adnan, Saddam's closest cousin and friend, was made minister of defense by Saddam, but was ordered assassinated later.
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