Abdullah Tal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Jordanian army commander
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Place of Birth: Irbid, Irbid Governorate, Jordan
About Abdullah Tal
- Abdullah Tal (Arabic: ??????? ?????, 17 July 1918 – 1973) served in the Transjordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 war in Palestine rising from the rank of company commander to become Military Governor of the Old City of Jerusalem.
- He was later accused of being involved in the assassination of King Abdullah I-which he denied-and spent many years in Egypt before returning to Jordan in 1967. Tal was born into a wealthy family in Irbid just as the Ottoman army were retreating from the town.
- His mother reportedly held him up to the window to witness the soldiers leaving.
- His secondary education was in Egypt.
- When he was 18 years old, he was jailed for demonstrating against the British.
- In 1941, he joined the British Army and in 1942 completed an officer training course in the Suez Canal area.
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