https://freerepublic.com/tag/alihasanalmajid/ en-us Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:41:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885836/posts A WITNESS overnight accused "Chemical Ali", Saddam Hussein's most notorious hatchet man, of killing her sons by throwing them out of a helicopter during the crushing of an Iraqi Shiite rebellion. Laila Kathum, testifying in the trial of 15 Saddam aides accused of crimes against humanity over the repression of the 1991 rebellion in southern Iraq, vented her fury against Ali Hassan al-Majid, widely known as "Chemical Ali". Speaking from behind a curtain, Ms Kathum accused Saddam's army of arresting her relatives and said Majid himself had killed her two sons. "The army detained my two sons, my brother and... Herald Sun https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885836/posts#comment Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:41:52 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304942/posts On March 16, 1988, 5,000 residents of Halabja, a Kurdish city in eastern Iraq, were killed and 10,000 injured when Saddam Hussein's army attacked with chemical weapons -- perhaps the largest-scale use of such weapons against a civilian population in modern times. That morning, Iraqi Air Force planes bombed the city with a lethal chemical cocktail of mustard gas and sarin, tabun and VX nerve agents. Two days ago, the man accused of overseeing the attack, Gen. Ali Hasan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali, appeared before a judicial tribunal in Baghdad. He is likely to go on trial next... Washington Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304942/posts#comment Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:21:35 GMT