'Chemical Ali' confesses

[underpants]

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_2053963,00.html

Baghdad - Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" told Iraq's genocide trial on Thursday that he ordered troops to execute villagers who refused to leave their homes during a brutal anti-Kurdish operation.

Ali Hassan al-Majid, who faces the gallows if found guilty of slaughtering 182 000 Kurdish villagers in the 1980s, spoke from the dock with subdued calm, in contrast to angry tirades delivered by Saddam before his execution.

"Yes, I gave my instructions to consider these villages as prohibited areas and I gave orders to the troops to catch anyone they find there and execute them after investigating them," Majid told the court.

"I'm resposible for the displacement and I took this decision alone, without going back to the high military command or Baath party commander.

"I say that before your court and before God," he added.





---background-----

The "Butcher of Kurdistan"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Hassan_al-Majid

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Pentagon: 'Chemical Ali' Killed in Attack
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/7/204930.shtml

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon believes "Chemical Ali," Saddam Hussein's cousin who ordered a chemical attack on Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988, is dead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Monday.

'Chemical Ali' reported dead
Monday, 7 April, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2925375.stm


Officials: Body of 'Chemical Ali' Found in Basra
Monday, April 07, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83383,00.html


'Chemical Ali' Captured in Iraq
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95314,00.html


'Chemical Ali' in U.S. custody
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/21/sprj.irq.chemical.ali/
DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Iraqi general known as "Chemical Ali," is in U.S. custody, military officials tell CNN.

[BushOut06]

1. They should ask him where he got his chemical weapons from

Of course, then the Iraqi court would have to indict Rummy and Poppy Bush.

[The Stranger]

2. "Chemical Ali" sure gets around -- dead, alive, dead, found, lost, up, down, resurrected . . .

Who keeps this guy's schedule?

[Rex]

3. Are they sure they have the real ChemAli?

:eyes:

[madeline_con]

4. Does he know Sadddam is dead?

I wonder if he's been so isolated, he has no idea.

He sounds like he's trying to protect his boss.

[underpants]

5. Which time?

Yes it does sound like he is trying to take it all on himself.