Reformist Cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr Among 47 Executed by Saudi Arabia

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63. To bad all your sources are the same web site from 2002..

....since then much more has come to light regarding Iraq after the 2003 invasion. In 2002 the USAWC probably still believed Iraq was still manufacturing WMD's too. And if Iraq was such a US puppet they wouldn't have kicked our troops out and they wouldn't let the Iranian's in to fight ISIL. So again, no sale.

Most of the details about the Halabja killings only emerged a few days later. Reports from the city suggested that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's forces had launched the chemical gas attack.
Figures for the final total of dead range from 3,200 people to 5,000.
Between 7,000 and 10,000 are believed to have been injured in the massacre, which became known as "Bloody Friday".
Initially, the US Defence Intelligence Agency blamed Iran for the attack. Halabja is around eight to 10 miles (14km to 16km) from the Iranian border.
However, the majority of evidence indicates that the gas attack was an Iraqi assault against Iranian forces, pro-Iranian Kurdish forces and Halabja's citizens during a major battle.
Although there is some evidence Saddam Hussein's forces had used chemical agents before this date, the attack on Halabja is thought to be the first documented assault using chemicals.
Saddam Hussein's deputy - Ali Hassan al-Majid, or "Chemical Ali" - who is on trial charged with crimes against humanity over a campaign against Kurds in the 1980s
He is one of six defendants facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the so-called Anfal campaign that killed an estimated 100,000 people.
The tribunal dropped charges against the seventh co-defendant, Saddam Hussein himself, when he was executed on 30 December 2006 after being convicted in a separate case.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4304000/4304853.stm

I'll take the BBC current story over the Times of India's story from 2002.