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U.S. awaits Iraqi request to turn over
'Chemical Ali' for execution
5.3.2008
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March 5, 2008
BAGHDAD, -- U.S. authorities haven't received
a request from Iraq for the release of Ali Hassan
al-Majeed, the one-time Saddam Hussein henchman
awaiting execution, an American military spokesman
said Wednesday.
"We will fulfill our responsibility once that
request has been submitted to us," said Brig. Gen.
Kevin Bergner,www.ekurd.net
spokesman for the U.S.
military.
Al-Majeed, a cousin of Hussein's, is known by the
nickname "Chemical Ali" for his role in a chemical
weapons attack on Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s.
A court convicted al-Majeed for his part in the
crackdown that killed nearly 182,000 Kurds in
Anfal campaign, including a 1988 attack with
poisonous gas and chemical agents that left 5,000
people dead in the village of Halabja. |
Ali Hassan al-Majid, first cousin of executed
dictator Saddam Hussein and also known as 'Chemical
Ali', 'Butcher of Kurdistan' sentenced to death over Kurdish genocide, |
The execution
approval came
from Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, and the
two vice presidents -- Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni,
and Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite, according to a
member of Iraq's parliament speaking on condition of
anonymity.
Anfal was an anti-Kurdish campaign led by the former
regime between 1986 and 1989 and involved a series
of military campaigns against the Kurdish Peshmerga
fighters as well as the mostly Kurdish civilian
population of southern Kurdistan 'northern Iraq'.
The campaign, in which chemical weapons were used,
The Anfal operation crackdown that killed nearly
200,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas.
Iraqi law requires the three members of the
country's presidency council to sign the execution
warrant.
A high-ranking official in al-Hashimi's office said
Friday that the execution should happen within 30
days.
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