Posted on 04/21/2008 6:15:43 PM PDT by rdl6989
Saddam Hussein's cousin, whose execution has been delayed for months in a complex legal and political battle, has been hospitalized after going on a hunger strike, his lawyer said Monday.
Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for the strikes he ordered against Kurds in the 1980s, and co-defendant Abdul-Ghani Abdul-Ghafour were admitted to a US medical facility on Sunday after they passed out, their defense attorney said.
The US military confirmed that al-Majid was hospitalized on Sunday and said he is in stable condition. But it could not immediately confirm the information about Abdul-Ghafour or provide more details.
Al-Majid has been sentenced to hang for his role in a brutal crackdown against the Kurds in the 1980s. He is also on trial in a separate case stemming from the suppression of a 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam's Sunni-dominated regime.
Defense attorney Badee Izzat Aref said al-Majid, Abdul-Ghafour and 13 other co-defendants in the Shiite uprising trial started a hunger strike on Friday to protest an order forcing them to stay in cramped quarters at the courthouse instead of their regular cells at the US detention facility Camp Cropper.
Thanks, I think I will have a Guinness now. :)
Me too. I thought they hanged him long ago. He has more lives than a cat.
I can think of a few more "rat b@stards" like him it would be fitting for however I won't mention any names. ; )
That sounds like a plan that might fly with the Iraqis, especially the slapping around part. LOL!
LMAO!
” How about if we get them to keep him on an IV until they straighten out the ifficulties holding up his execution? Or maybe he needs a feeding tube inserted into his gut. It would be a shame if he missed his hanging by committing suicide, don’t you think? “
yep..seen everything now! tube feed a terrorist but pull the feeding tube from a brain damaged woman{terry schaivo}
whats next? euthanasia..oh wait!! yeah,,thats coming too
Gosh, I’m really worried about him. To avoid his starving to death, he should be immediately hanged. Or turned over to Kurdish authorities.
I thought he was executed too. Were there 2 Chemical Alis?
I’m with you. I like the idea of turning him over to the Kurds for appropriate disposition.
His nickname *is* “Chemical Ali”. Maybe the Kurds could hold him over a bunsen burner for a while, y’know, before the denouement...
Why don’t they just starve him to death? He already has a good start, and a death wish.
Force feed him a frozen pot roast through the top of his skull.
(Compassionate Conservatism at its finest)
dang, he needs a “Hanged” strike. I thought he was room temperature already.
“How about we force-feed him an entire rotten pig so that he doesn’t starve to death?”
I don’t think he was particularly devout
“Quite true. The hangmen at the Nuremburg Trials failed to account for the weight the Nazis lost in calculating the necessary counterweight, the result of which had them die slower and more agonizingly. Poor fellows.”
That is the official version of events true. However it is highly unlikely it really was an oversight.
A bullet in the brain.
I seem to remember him being reported dead a few times.
Hehe. The 'ol frozen pig on the brain method...
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