Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' Sentenced to Hang

[Meeker Morgan]

Source: Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) - Two decades after Iraq's military laid waste to Kurdish villages, the Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," and two others to death for their roles in the bloody campaign against the restive ethnic minority.

Al-Majid, a cousin of executed former President Saddam Hussein, was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for ordering army and security services to use chemical weapons in an offensive said to have killed some 180,000 people during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.

As the verdicts were read out in Baghdad, to the north some 10,000 American troops were in their sixth day Sunday of a major effort to oust al-Qaida fighters from the city of Baqouba.

The commander of the U.S. operation said U.S. troops have cleared about 60 percent of western Baqouba of militants, but Iraqi security forces are "not quite up to the job" yet of holding the gains long term.

Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070624/D8PV8A3G0.html

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Another hanging.

[Xenotime]

1. America's thirst for blood continues...

When the run out over there...they will start going after its own people.

[noel adamson]

7. the Neocon's thirst for shifting their blame;

Their thirst for blood is just a necessary tool in their game. They are already killing us but I think you are right in that they will not start the more overt killing until we reach critical mass and rise up their tyrany. They are preparing for that in a big way.

[Catch22Dem]

2. My apologies if I'm unable to feel sorry for him.

:shrug:

[IndianaGreen]

5. It was Ronald Reagan that gave Saddam chemical weapons, why don't we hang him?

It was Rumsfeld that went to Baghdad as Reagan's emissary. Why don't we hang him also?

American fingerprints can be found in Saddam's crimes, and Saddam's crimes and number of dead and torture pale in comparison to what we have done to Iraq. Why don't we hang our criminal government while we are at it? They are the ones that should be tried for crimes against humanity!

[tabasco]

8. That's right. Are they trying Rumsfeld in absentia?

Saint Ronnie gave Ol' Buddy Saddam a whole lotta chemical weapons (aka WMD).

http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/arming_iraq.php

Something the wingers forget when they screech "he gassed his own people!"

Oooops! We gave him the gas!!

[Socal31]

9. ?

Why dont we arrest gun-shop owners? I dont think the world works like that, sorry.

[truth2power]

10. Not the same. It's about complicity. n/t

[otherlander]

16. 1. Because he's dead.

2. Because I'm not in charge of the government.

[Henny Penny]

11. You're assuming he got a fair hearing...

I wouldn't like to be on trial for anything in Iraq right now. But being up on a charge of gassing a load of people and being called "chemical Ali" kinda makes it seem like a foregone conclusion.

[PurityOfEssence]

3. Dead men tell no tales

Criminals are as criminals do...

[Dr.Phool]

4. When are they going to try the guys who gave him the chemical weapons?

I think there's a picture of him shaking Saddams hand floating round somewhere.

[noel adamson]

6. Chemical Rummy - the image

[mainer]

12. What about our own weapons makers?

Their landmines and bombs have killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Aren't they as guilty?

[rec_report]

13. Yes, I am waiting for the treason trials of Bush, Cheney Halliburton,

Rumsfeld, Gonzales and Rove to begin... with all possible penalties for treason on the plate.
Cheers,
Polar Bear

[Meeker Morgan]

15. Treason trials? Dream on. n/t

[underpants]

14. What, again?* a brief history of the last few years*

Full links available here
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/underpants/18

Pentagon: 'Chemical Ali' Killed in Attack
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2...

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon believes "Chemical Ali," Saddam Hussein's cousin who ordered a chemical attack on Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988, is dead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Monday.

'Chemical Ali' reported dead
Monday, 7 April, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/292...


Officials: Body of 'Chemical Ali' Found in Basra
Monday, April 07, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83383,...


'Chemical Ali' Captured in Iraq
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95314,...


'Chemical Ali' in U.S. custody
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08... /
DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Iraqi general known as "Chemical Ali," is in U.S. custody, military officials tell CNN.