Posted on 01/25/2023 12:23:41 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 2010, American-occupied Iraq hanged Ali Hassan al-Majid — Saddam Hussein‘s cousin and longtime aide, better known as Chemical Ali.
Al-Majid acquired his chilling nickname for the notorious March 1988 attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja.
That day, after an appetizer of conventional bombing, Iraqi jets dropped a cocktail of multiple chemical weapons — mustard gas, sarin, tabun, and VX, give or take — killing up to 5,000 people.
“It was life frozen. Life had stopped, like watching a film and suddenly it hangs on one frame,” wrote the ethnically Iranian BBC correspondent Kaveh Golestan,* who arrived on the scene after the bombardment....
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Possibly the most intelligent member of Sadam’s immediate entourage. The US would have done well to spirit him out of Iraq and brought to a safe haven here for his knowledge and insights which American citizenship and many dollrs would have purchased. A much better deal than the human garbage we are welcoming invade us today.
The US military has studied chemical warfare for a hundred years or more. So what could this rat bastard have had to offer that we don’t already know. He got what he deserved.
He knew the history of the perfectly legitimate government of Iraq for the previous twenty years or more, An invaluable encyclopedia. You also need to grow up and cut out the cartoonish ‘rat bastard’ silly sort of objectification. Far to many Americans are as stupidly simplistic as your discourse would indicate you are. Today’s enemy, tomorrow’s ally and what they did to who is totally irrelevant.
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