"Chemical Ali" Sentenced To Death, Again

Saddam Hussein's Cousin Receives Second Death Penalty For Suppression Of Shiites

(CBS/AP)  A special Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," to death for his role in the 1991 suppression of a Shiite uprising.

"Chemical Ali," whose real name is Ali Hassan al-Majid, is already under death sentence for the crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s. Two other officials and Sunni protestors that were only following orders were spared.

Former Baath party official Abdul-Ghani Abdul-Ghafur also received a death sentence Tuesday at the end of the trial that began in August 2007.

Four defendants received life sentences, six face 15-year sentences and three were acquitted.

Al-Majid was nicknamed "Chemical Ali" for ordering poison gas attacks that killed thousands.

Former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai also faces the gallows in the 1980s Kurdish crackdown but is among those receiving a 15-year sentence Tuesday.

Al-Majid was one of three former Saddam officials sentenced to death in June after being convicted by an Iraqi court of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for their part in the Operation Anfal crackdown that killed nearly 200,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas.

Al-Majid would be the fifth former regime official hanged for alleged atrocities against Iraqis during Saddam's nearly three-decade rule.

Saddam, who also had been a defendant in the so-called Anfal trial, was hanged Dec. 30, 2006, for ordering the killings of more than 140 Shiite Muslims from the Iraqi city of Dujail following a 1982 assassination attempt against him.

[cockamammy]

OF COURse THE LIBERALS ARE SUPPORTING THIS GUY
Posted by MrMeatSpin at 11:16 AM : Dec 03, 2008
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*** does that mean? What does a liberal have to do with a murderous thug like Ali? Yeah, liberals are more progressive in their social, political, fiscal beliefs but they don''t support murderous thugs like this jerk. Do both liberals and conservatives alike a favor and refrain from posting stupid comments that make no sense whatsoever.

[jtizzle611]

impeach___w: are you an idiot? or did you not learn how to read? if you read the article, you would have seen that this guy was responsible for over 200,000 deaths. i don''t know where you''re from, but in most places if you kill one person you get the death penalty.

[evian_ycnan]

Hopefully Olin, Dow, and DuPont received their copies of Ali Hassan al-Majid''s reports on the efficacy of their products.

Shouldn`t all be for naught.

Lysergic acid diethylamide -- Better living through chemistry

[mrmeatspin]

OF COURse THE LIBERALS ARE SUPPORTING THIS GUY

[armydog2]

Just follow thru with the execution already, he can only die once and he won''t get any virgins either.

[boandco]

jgunther7 says: They don%u2019t dare let him talk to the press, he might tell how George Bush Snr head of CIA, Rich Cheney and Ronald Rumsfeldt gave him the chemicals and told him where and how to use them. The only way they can keep him quiet is to kill him. After you%u2019ve murdered over a million people, I guess one more must be easy.

Yes, but his blood and the blood of all those Iraqis killed in this illegal war is on our hands.

[impeach___w]

Why does he deserve to be hanged but not rumsfield or Cheney. They provided materials and intellegenge on when and how to use this on Iran.

[dixxson-2009]

What was Chemical Ali''s Job?
What was His Crime?
The same job Wernher Von Braun did for Hitler?
The same job Von Braun and Dr Edward Teller did for the US in Space on Hiroshima" and Nagasaki Japan?
The Bush War Crimes are without End"

[aldon61]

There aren''t too many people that deserve hanging more than this demented idiot. Do it quickly and let''s get on with our lives.

[impeach___w]

"Tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them," Kissinger told an official in the region, according to a declassified State Department account. The Khmer Rouge "are murderous thugs," he said, "but we won''t let that stand in our way."