'Chemical Ali' execution approved in Iraq

Telegraph UK ^ | 02 29 08 | By Sally Peck and agencies

[Perdogg]

The long-delayed execution of "Chemical Ali", Saddam Hussein's cousin and one of his most notorious henchmen, has been approved, an Iraqi government adviser said.

Ali Hassan al-Majid known as Chemical Ali Chemical Ali - whose real name is Ali Hassan al-Majid - was one of three former Saddam officials sentenced to death in June after being convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for their part in the 1988 Anfal campaign that killed nearly 200,000 Kurds. An appeals court upheld the verdict in September.

[Perdogg]

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[ARE SOLE]

Good, we will see how this murderer leaves the stage.

Regards

[Carl LaFong]

I believe Barack HUSSEIN Obama would object.

[NurdlyPeon]

Good, we will see how this murderer leaves the stage.

Hopefully it will be by chemical injection or by gas.

[PGalt]

GRRRREAT news! Thanks for posting.

[Jorge]

Isn't this the guy responsible for wiping out entire towns?
I'm surprised they haven't executed him already.

[17th Miss Regt]

Isn't this the guy responsible for wiping out entire towns?

That's the guy. But, unlike America, the day comes quickly when a condemned Iraqi may actually be put to death. Best guess is a rope will do the trick.

[mewzilla]

Isn't this the guy responsible for wiping out entire towns?

Saddam's Chemical Weapons Campaign: Halabja, March 16, 1988

Warning: There are some graphic pics at the link.

[GWB00]

This will only make them mad!/Sacarasm off

[Diogenesis]

========= Halabja =========

Dead children, previously playing in Halabja
Victims of Saddams'
and "Chemical Ali"'sWMD in March 1988.

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Also found in Iraq:

* A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service
that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.

* A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials
working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.

* Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home,
one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.

* New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),
and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.

* Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in
resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).

* A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission
that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.

* Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles,
a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists
have said they were told to conceal from the UN.

* Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km -
well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed
Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.

Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology
related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles,
and other prohibited military equipment.

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Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999,
when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for:

• up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent;

• up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which,
in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX;

• growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured);

• over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents;

• 20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation
of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum);

• 2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin;

• development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)

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[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

This is yet another item the left tells us we are supposed to ignore when it comes to reasons for invading Iraq. They might have compassion for expensive domestic social programs, but when it comes to international compassion for their fellow human beings in Iraq, the leftist, anti-war democraps say..”SCREW YOU” to anyone being subjugated to a tyrant.

[Jorge]

Just awful.

[Jorge]

Exactly. We ousted one of the worst mass murdering dictators in our time, captured monsters like Chemical Ali and liberated millions of people....

How on earth can somebody like Obama say this was a "mistake".
The left has truly lost their ability to discern right from wrong when it comes to this war.

[Ignatz]

Best guess is a rope will do the trick.

Maybe they'll REALLY torture him - and put a panty on his head! Ooooh! That'll leave a mark! [/sarcasm]

[mewzilla]

FWIW, I think it would be fitting to execute him on March 16th.