Chemical Ali executed
25/01/2010 - 14:36:23Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin “Chemical Ali” was executed today after being sentenced to death for poison gas attacks that killed more than 5,000 Kurds in 1988.
Ali Hassan al-Majid, who got his nickname from the gas attacks, was convicted a week ago of ordering the poison to be dropped on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988 as part of a campaign against an uprising.
It was the fourth death sentence against him for crimes against humanity.
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