UPDATE:
Note: The following posts are a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855384/posts
Iraq - ‘Chemical Ali’ and two former Saddam officials sentenced to death by hanging
AFP via translation | June 24, 2007
Posted on 06/24/2007 1:54:11 AM PDT by HAL9000
via translation -
ALARM - Genocide Kurdish: death penalty by hanging for “Ali the chemical one”
BAGHDAD - “Ali the Chemical one”, cousin of Saddam Hussein, was condemned Sunday to the death penalty by hanging by the High Iraqi penal court for the genocide having cost the life some 182.000 Kurds in 1988.
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1 posted on 06/24/2007 1:54:15 AM PDT by HAL9000
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Reuters - Iraq strongman “Chemical Ali” sentenced to death
2 posted on 06/24/2007 1:55:34 AM PDT by HAL9000
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AP News Alert
An Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein’s cousin known as “Chemical Ali” to death by hanging for his role in the 1980s scorched-earth campaign against Kurds.
3 posted on 06/24/2007 1:57:16 AM PDT by HAL9000
Honest to pete...this article begs for an appropriate cartoon to go with it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070623/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_iran_president
“Iran president turns to butcher for economy tips”
Sat Jun 23, 8:59 AM ET
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “TEHRAN (Reuters) - Highlighting a common touch that has become a trademark of his presidency, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he keeps his finger on Iran’s economic pulse by talking to his butcher, newspapers reported on Saturday.
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“We have hardworking shopkeepers in our neighbourhood from whom I get important economic information because they are living among the people,” Ahmadinejad, the son of a blacksmith, was quoted by Iran’s Sharq daily as saying.
“For example, there is an honourable butcher in our neighbourhood who is aware of all the problems of the people and I also get important economic information from him,” he said in a meeting with worker unions, Sharq reported.”