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U.S. Military Says Iraqi 'Chemical Ali' May Be Alive
June 05, 2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cousin of toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) known as "Chemical Ali," who U.S. and British officials earlier said they thought died in a bombing raid on April 5, may still be alive, U.S. defense officials said on Thursday.
U.S. forces bombed the home of Ali Hassan al-Majid in the southern city of Basra during the war to oust Saddam, and British and American officials expressed confidence at the time that Majid had been killed.
For the record there are two Guardian retractions today.
First was Paul Wolfowitz, I posted earlier, here is the second:
Corrections and clarifications
Thursday June 5, 2003 The Guardian In our front page lead on May 31 headlined "Straw, Powell had serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims," we said that the foreign secretary Jack Straw and his US counterpart Colin Powell had met at the Waldorf Hotel in New York shortly before Mr Powell addressed the United Nations on February 5.
Mr Straw has now made it clear that no such meeting took place. The Guardian accepts that and apologises for suggesting it did.
Oh, I don't know....how bout The Bent One running for Gov. of California or New York???