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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-25-10 09:23 AM
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'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq
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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
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