'''Rashid Ali al-Gaylani''' (Arabic: رشيد علي الكيلاني; 1892 – August 28, 1965) was an Iraqi [[Iraq]]i politician who served as Prime Minister of [[Iraq]] three times. Gaylani is known for the attempted pro-Nazi coup - rebellion he staged in April 1941, during [[World War II]], during which he took control, with the help of a group of officers led by Salah al-Din al-Sabah, over the government in Iraq, deposed the legal regent Abd al-Ila from his position, and established a pro-[[Nazi]] government who demanded the expulsion of the British from Iraq. The rebellion ended with a British invasion of Iraq and the start of the Anglo-Iraqi war, and the defeat of al-Gaylani and his men. Shortly after the end of his term of office, the Farhud pogrom raged in Baghdad, during which upto some 1,000Jews of Baghdad were brutally murdered, children were thrown into water in front of parents, there were mass rapes. The disturbances came following wild incitement against the Jews by Arabs and Nazis, and the bloodletting that characterized the period of his reign, in which he collaborated with the Nazis, and with the Palestine [[Grand Mufti]] Haj Amin al-Husseini.