Iraqi court sentences "Chemical Ali" to hang

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as "Chemical Ali", was sentenced on Sunday to hang for masterminding a genocidal military campaign that used poison gas against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.

Ali Hassan al-Majeed, looking frail and wearing traditional Arab robes, stood silently as the judge read the verdict. As he was escorted from the Baghdad courtroom, he said: "Thanks be to God."

"This is judgment day for the aggressors against the Kurdish people," said Namiq Horamy, as he handed out sweets to colleagues in Kurdistan's Ministry of Martyrs, which looks after victims of the campaign.

Majeed, whose very name once sparked fear among Iraqis, directed a military campaign against the Kurdish north in which chemical weapons were used, villages demolished, agricultural lands destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.
Iraqi court sentences "Chemical Ali" to hang

Iraqi justice.....

Have a good one!:s4:

No, Iraqi justice would be George W Bush and Tony Blair hanging.

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No, Iraqi justice would be George W Bush and Tony Blair hanging.

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I agree, but chemical ali should hang right beside them, along with Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, and at least a dozen other neocons. Then we could start with the CEOs of oil companies and war profiteering companies. All in all it would be a fairly large hanging, one worthy of national TV coverage.

Oh yeah sure Chemical Ali is also a bad man.

I think we should put all the leaders of the world on an island together, and not let them off until they can learn to behave. Maybe they'll all go mad and kill each other.

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I think we should put all the leaders of the world on an island together, and not let them off until they can learn to behave. Maybe they'll all go mad and kill each other.

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All that would do is create an entire new breed of asshole.

Have a good one!:s4:

In the same way all spraying bombs all over the middle east does is create a new breed of terrorist.

Sweet as *high five* ! Is it so hard to take rare positive news for what it is?

finally, it took way to long for them to come to this conclusion

I t has to take that long so it looks more like a proper legal process, and less like a political assasination.

But when will it be the turn of "Comical Ali" ;)

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