'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC news

Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Iraqi official known as Chemical Ali, has been executed, a government spokesman has announced.

Majid, an enforcer in Saddam Hussein's regime, was convicted of killing Shia Muslims in 1991 and 1999.

He was also sentenced to death for a gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988.

It is believed that about 5,000 people died in the attack, most of them women and children.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8479115.stm

[iandhr]

1. I am against the Death Penalty

but he was a very bad guy

[Ian David]

2. Didn't he turn himself in to coalition forces and we set him free?

And then captured him again later?

[RollWithIt]

9. If memory serves correctly, we had him briefly but didnt know he was the guy....

Then he was recaptured. Not sure if it's the same guy though.

[Ian David]

10. That was a different guy who was released accidentally.

IIRC, Chemical Ali tried to turn himself in, but was told we didn't want him.

Even though he was in the deck of cards.

[Posteritatis]

17. I think that was Comical Ali, not Chemical Ali. (nt)

[Rebubula]

3. No problem with this

If anyone deserved this, it was this man.

[Soylent Brice]

4. the first of 4 death sentences carried out.

wonder how they'll execute the last 3? someone call umbrella corp.

[brendan120678]

5. Hanging was too lenient for this guy...

I'm opposed to the Death Penalty in general, but I do believe that there are instances when it should be imposed.

I think, however, that it's only fair to execute a murderer in the exact same or similar fashion that the murderer executed his victims. Majid should have gotten the gas chamber.

[dipsydoodle]

8. The company in Baltimore which sold the gas to Iraq

went out of business. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801703.html

You'd need a differnt gas supplier.

[24601]

22. Baltimore Mayor Dixon resigns effective 4 Feb - problem solved n/t

[Newsjock]

6. Yay! We win!

Ewe-ess-eh! Ewe-ess-eh!

Does this mean we can come home now?

[ShortnFiery]

16. Yes and the more he suffered, the better ... because we know it helped the dead victims ...

oh wait!

I still don't believe in State Sponsored Executions. It's BARBARISM. :thumbsdown:

[Bigmack]

7. I know of several of the top war criminals...

from more recent wars are hiding out.

I wouldn't want them executed, of course... I'd just like for them to have to cancel their speaking tours.

[trungpa ricochet]

11. Why is it that the USA sells WMD's to these clowns...

...when it fits the "realpolitik" (Kissinger's favorite word) and the gas is used on Iranians? That was OK, right?

Oh, but now Ali is a bad man, a war criminal, in fact. The USA is a beacon of liberty and cannot condone such acts. Hang him high!

Maybe some people in Washington are war criminals, too, but we can't go there, can we?

Just wondering. :eyes:

[Socal31]

13. You dont see the difference between using gas against soldiers...

and gas against civilians? Both are horrible and illegal, but one is worse.

[marasinghe]

21. some references for you: depleted uranium, white phosphorus, fallujah (n/t)

[The Stranger]

23. Actually, shock and awe was on the civilians, not "soldiers," but nice try.

[JonLP24]

12. Since he was a really bad guy

He should spend the rest of his natural life confined. That is a bigger punishment. Now he's simply dead.

[mvd]

15. Agreed

I make no exceptions in my opposition to the DP.

[BreweryYardRat]

14. Goodbye, good riddance, and may he suffer in Hell for an eternity.

This guy definitely deserves what he got.

[d_b]

18. Is Chemical Bushi next?

[Thothmes]

26. Maybe, but it is to late to get Chemical Johnson, or Chemical McNamara

[Arrowhead2k1]

19. Oh boy am I sure glad that awful Iraqi regime is hanging, the Iraqis have a much brighter future now

Blasts near hotels kill 36 in Baghdad January 25, 2010

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/25/iraq.explosions/index.html
:sarcasm:

[JBoy]

20. Took a long time to die by hanging. Ali kept doing the rope-a-dope.

:hide:

[johnfunk]

24. BREAKING: "Chemical Ali" changes name to "Well-hung Ali"

I too oppose the death penalty, but then I also oppose world-class homicidal douchebags, including the late, unlamented Ali Hassan al-Majid. Hang in there, dude!

[ButterflyBlood]

25. Should've just dropped him off somewhere in Kurd country

That'd be more fitting.