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Saddam Hussein's cousin 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death for poison gas attack which killed 5,000
Daily Mail online ^
| Jan 17, 2010
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 01/17/2010 1:39:59 PM PST by driftdiver
Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" has been sentenced to death by hanging for his involvement in a poison gas attack on the city of Halabja.
Families of some of the 5,000 Kurds killed in the 1988 attack cheered when the guilty verdict against Ali Hassan al-Majid was handed down Sunday.
Other officials in Saddam's regime, including former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim al-Taie, also received jail terms at the Iraqi High Tribunal.
The brutal attack on Halabja close to the Iranian border 22 years ago killed mostly women and children through a series of mustard and nerve gas bombings by Iraqi aircraft. Those who survived have been prone to developing cancer and birth defects are also common.
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: chemicalali; chemicalweapons; deathrow; halabja; iraq; kurds; saddam; terrortrials; wmd
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To: Candor7
thanks for the ping, Candor - I don’t expect to see much of what really happened to the thousands of Kurdish villagers in the US ‘news’ - they didn’t show the thousands Saddam poisoned from the air before the war, they didn’t show it during the war, and they certainly won’t show it now.
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posted on
01/17/2010 4:07:33 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(FAIR DINKUM!)
To: Candor7
I took these and made my report back in ‘04.
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posted on
01/17/2010 4:18:59 PM PST
by
Eagle Eye
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.)
To: Fred Nerks
Hi Fred. Things are hot in Massachusetts.Beckwith has a report on his pages. The tide is turning, hopefully not too late. Yes, the left has studiously ignored Clinton's and Obama's support of genocide in Rwanda, Kurdistan,and Kenya. But we leave spoor for the future, when the left will again accept genocide or perpetrate it. Its all the same to the left. I actually fear for the Haitian people.They are quickly discovering that Obama is no saviour.The only aid they will get will be politically correct, which may mean very little aid and a lot of force designed to evacuate Haiti wholesale to the USA ( votes for 2012 and a very large "race card.").They will fight him of course, when they discover what game is afoot.The risk of genocide is very real in Haiti now.
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posted on
01/17/2010 4:19:14 PM PST
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Candor7
((The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member RA))
To: Eagle Eye; Beckwith; Fred Nerks
Y9ou will have several Freepers interested in what you saw. Beckwith maybe one of them
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01/17/2010 4:20:33 PM PST
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Candor7
((The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member RA))
To: jwalsh07
Thanks and Best Wishes to you and yours as well.
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posted on
01/17/2010 4:21:34 PM PST
by
Eagle Eye
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.)
To: driftdiver
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posted on
01/17/2010 4:22:43 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: JRios1968
Its really too bad you can only hang these guys once.
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01/17/2010 4:23:59 PM PST
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driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
I didn’t expect the DMS when I went to investigate the bunker and really didn’t know what it was until I was able to research it a couple hours later.
As I read the MSDS and other literature I began to cough, sniff, have some itching and felt a little tightness in my chest...and I had to reassure myself that I was only experiencing psychosomatic symptoms as I read the signs and symptoms of exposure.
It’s funny now of course.
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posted on
01/17/2010 4:47:20 PM PST
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Eagle Eye
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.)
To: Eagle Eye
“Its funny now of course.”
Funny in a sick kinda of way.
Good thing you never found any WMD. sheesh
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posted on
01/17/2010 5:11:48 PM PST
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driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
Good thing WMD's, mass graves, and buried aircraft were all rumors.
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posted on
01/17/2010 5:27:52 PM PST
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Eagle Eye
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.)
To: Eagle Eye
How would they ever get those to fly again after burying them?
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posted on
01/17/2010 5:48:38 PM PST
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driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
They had them submerged in the wadi's around Al Asad as well. Not like this one though they were totally hidden except from the air.
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01/17/2010 7:26:59 PM PST
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Eagle Eye
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.)
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