Topic: Halabja
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-27 09:10:32
<div><p>Dozens of Iraqis on Wednesday gathered at the grave of "Chemical Ali" the notorious cousin and henchman of Saddam Hussein who was executed for gassing thousands of Kurds in 1988, an AFP reporter said.</p><p>He was buried late Tuesday in the town of Ouja near Tikrit beside six ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-26 17:10:31
<div><p>Hundreds of Kurds took to the streets of the Iraqi town of Halabja on Tuesday to celebrate the execution of 'Chemical Ali', hanged for the gassing of some 5,000 of its residents in 1988.</p><p>"The execution is just and it fills me with a joy that I ...
AP Features | 2010-01-26 00:16:52
<div><p>Iraq's government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, gave no other details of the execution. But that didn't stop speculation that three deadly suicide attacks in Baghdad — just before the official announcement ofam suspected the non-Arab Kurds of siding with Persian Iran during the war. But it was the Halabja attack that riveted the world ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-25 20:10:26
<div><p>Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin and henchman "Chemical Ali" was executed on Monday just days after he was sentenced to death for the 1988 gassing of thousands of Kurds, a crime that shocked the world.</p><p>Ali Hassan al-Majid was better known by his macabre nickname and as the ...
