[3] Khairallah was born in 1910 in the village of Al-Awja, 5 km south of Tikrit, and then part of the Baghdad Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

[4] He was grandson of Musalat ibn Omar Bey III, al-Bu Nasir tribal leader and martyr of the anti-Ottoman resistance.

[7] The revolt did not achieve any major changes, with the British dispatching a taskforce which occupied the country and re-installed the ousted pro-British Regent 'Abd al-Ilah.

[3] He became the Governor of Baghdad in 1958, he became a member of the Higher Education and Scientific Research Council in 1972, and he served as head of the Civil Service Board from 1973 to 1982.

He formed a retail and property organization which was widely known as the Khairallah Talfah Society (Arabic: جمعية خير الله طلفاح) .

In 1940, Talfah wrote an article titled "Three Things that God Should not have Created: Persians, Jews and Flies" (Arabic: ثلاثة كان على الله ان لايخلقهم: الفرس، اليهود والذباب).

The article presented the Persians as "animals that God created in human form", the Jews as "a mixture of dirt and diverse remnants of people.

"[10][11] According to Con Coughlin, “This weak Iraqi attempt at imitating Mein Kampf had an impact on Saddam's future policies.

[13] When he became Mayor of Baghdad in the early 1970s, he neglected to perform his other duties because he preoccupied himself by imposing his personal standards of "morality" and "righteous behaviour on other people".