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'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death by Iraq tribunal (1st Lead)
Jun 24, 2007, 9:19 GMT
A file picture dated 14 September 2007 shows Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as \'Chemical Ali\',a co-defendant of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, testifying during their trial on genocide charges at the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. Iraq\'s special tribunal 23 June 2007 sentenced to death Ali Hassan al-Majid for his role in the late-1980s campaign against the Kurds during the regime of former dictator Saddam Hussein. EPA/ERIK DE CASTRO POOL
Baghdad/Cairo - Iraq's special tribunal Sunday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein and known internationally as 'Chemical Ali' to death for his role in the genocide against Kurds in the late 1980s.
Also sentenced to death were former defence minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad and former general Hussein Rashid Mohamed.
The court served life prison terms to Farhan Motlek Jabouri, a former chief of military intelligence, and Sabir Douri, also a top military intelligence figure.
One defendant, Taher Tawfiq A'ni, who was an assistant to Chemical Ali, was acquitted for insufficient evidence.
The trial began in August 2006. At the time, Saddam was also one of the accused, but he was hanged last December 30 on a guilty verdict from his trial for the massacre of Shiites in Dujail in 1982.
An estimated 180,000 Kurds were killed in Saddam's campaign under the code-name Operation Anfal, when the Iraqi army allegedly carried out a scorched-earth campaign against hundreds of villages in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq in 1987-1988.
During the trial al-Majid insisted on his innocence despite a mass of eyewitness, tape recordings and documented evidence against him. He said he was only carrying out Saddam's orders or else he himself would have been killed.
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but little bush will veto that too.
get rid of the whole rotten bunch and start over .
'And the culprits of the U.S. government that sold Saddam the chemical weapons via Rumsfield, when does their trial and lynching take place?'
The USA never sold chemical weapons to Iraq. They bought the materials from the Germans. God you people are stupid.
We will wait for Bush gangster's (Cheney, Rumsfield, Blair etc.) trial for the genocide of more than a million people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Since these Bible thumping, unHoly ghost filled christian prophets are ruling this world in the form of Satan, it will be difficult to get justice in their filthy world; whether through UN or anything. However, justice will catch with them sooner or later.
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EgeriadogJun 24th, 2007 - 10:44:40
And the culprits of the U.S. government that sold Saddam the chemical weapons via Rumsfield, when does their trial and lynching take place?
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