Chemical Ali Sentenced to Die For Not Buying Yellowcake
I mean, that’s the only reason we went to Iraq wasn’t it? Bogus yellowcake receipts?
Two decades after Iraq’s military laid waste to Kurdish villages, the Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali,” and two others to death for their roles in the bloody campaign against the restive ethnic minority.
Al-Majid, a cousin of executed former President Saddam Hussein, was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for ordering army and security services to use chemical weapons in an offensive said to have killed some 180,000 people during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
In the northern Kurdish city of Halabja, where an estimated 5,000 died in a chemical attack in 1988, people gathered Sunday in a small rally at the cemetery.
“We thank God that we have lived to see our enemies being punished for all of the atrocities they have committed against our people,” said Lukman Abdul-Qader, head of the Halabja Chemical Attack Victims’ Society.
We need to get these people to subscribe to the New York Times! They obviously don’t know what they’re talking about!
Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’ Sentenced to Hang
