Khairallah Talfah Society () . One of the society's greatest money generating schemes was buying worthless farmland on the outskirts of cities where residential land was in very short supply, dividing the farmland into thousands of residential plots, then selling the plots to people and making high profits as a result, the plots were usually sold to members of the military, police officers, teachers, and other government workers. He headed the War Veterans Society (Veteran Warriors or the Khairallah Talfah Society, جمعية خير الله طلفاح as it was commonly named). With the huge shortages of almost all consumer goods that became the new phenomena soon after the Baath Party took power on 17 July 1968, the Khairallah Talfah Society جمعية خير الله طلفاح imported goods at dinar/dollar rates which were heavily subsidized and then it made a considerable profit by selling these same goods to very grateful people. Views, health and personal life 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". He ordered the security service and the police force to spray paint the legs of any woman who was caught wearing short skirts, and he also ordered them to tear the bell-bottom trousers which were worn by all males and females. These trousers were fashionable at the time. These actions against any "Westernised" contemporary trends only lasted a few weeks because they were abruptly terminated, they were probably terminated when Vice-President Saddam Hussein intervened. These "trendy" fashions subsequently spread all over the country and they were even indulged in by Khairallah's own sons and daughters. Shortly before his death, his leg(s) were amputated because he was suffering from diabetes. Family His sons and daughters were known to behave like miniatures of their father. It was alleged that they could be quite unpleasant to people, expecting others to show obedience, deference and acknowledge their superiority. His daughter Ilham إلهام (born 1955 and later died of cancer) was schooled in the famously good and strict Christian convent girls' school of Rahibat Al-Taqdomah مدرسة راهبات التقدمة. Ilham was the half-sister of Sajida (Saddam's wife) and Adnan Khairallah (Defence Minister). The daughters of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr were in that school راهبات التقدمة before Ilham. Al-Bakr's daughters were known to have been very well behaved, mingling seamlessly