Posted on 12/07/2008 2:47:00 PM PST by Masti
'Chemical Ali' sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam's who is known as Chemical Ali, was sentenced to death for a second time Tuesday for his part in crushing a Shiite uprising in 1991.
Mohammed Oraibi al-Khalifa, a judge for the Iraqi High Tribunal, sentenced Majid and other senior figures from Saddam's government.
Among them were Abdelghani Abdul Ghafor al-Ani, who headed Saddam's Baath Party in southern Iraq at the time of the uprising and who also received a death sentence Tuesday. The former defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, received a 15-year prison sentence.
Majid already faces a death sentence for his role in a 1981 crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq.
Judge Khalifa said Tuesday that Majid was guilty of crimes against humanity.
A lawyer for Majid's defense team said that they would not be able to comment until after an appeal is filed.
Majid remained calm, but his co-defendant Ani shouted: "I welcome death if it is for Iraq, for pan-Arabism and for the Baath. Down with the American and Persian occupation."
The judge told Ani to "shut up." In later remarks to his fellow judges, he was overheard saying: "All the Baathists are this way. Baathists live as Baathists and die as Baathists."
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Get him done and hang him already. Or just send him through Halabja.
Old, old news.
If they are going to keep sentencing this guy to death, how long before he actually takes the pipe?
After passing through Halabja, letting the Kurds (victims of the Arabs’ racism) “judge” him... that would be MORAL justice.
The article is from Dec 2. that’s why I posted it in “extended” news only.
I remember the day when Saddam Hussein was hung. I was in New Zealand and that day, I drove from Christchurch to Dunedin. I left Christchurch - S.H. was alive and when I drove into Dunedin, he was dead ! I wonder if there will be a lot of fanfare with Chemical Ali like S.H.
Isn’t he the one they hanged, then didn’t hang etc. for what seemed like forever?
They live and die as Baathists. Yawn.
Who cares how they die? Just let them die, already!
They didn't say if the sentences would run consecutively.
Will some clown film it with a cellular phone?
Will Chemical Ali get 7 knife wounds after he is dead?
And will Osama Bin Laden ever get caught?
Stay tuned.
Paging Vlad Rasputin ... Vlad, please pick up the white courtesy phone ...
This guy has more sentences than a Tom Clancy novel!
Sad, but so true.
Just trying to be humorous with a non humorous subject.
This guy deserves to die for his part in gassing Iraqi Kurds.
Fully understood.
Chemical Ali just got his THRID death sentence for gas attacks. One of these times they ought to get around to hanging him for one of them.
Yes, ‘one of these days’ — though — might get lucky in it... less of an Obama-day than a BushDay...
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