World News 'Chemical Ali' hanged for gas attack on Kurds

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"Chemical" Ali Hassan al-Majid was hanged Jan. 25, leaving a notorious legacy that stamped Saddam Hussein's regime as capable of unimaginable cruelty and brought unsettling questions about Iraq's stockpiles of poison gas and whether it could unleash them again.

The poison gas clouds that struck the Kurdish village of Halabja began what would become an about-face by Washington — which had supported Saddam during the eight-year war against Iran's new Islamic state in the 1980s, but soon became his arch-foe and protector of the Kurds in their northern enclave.

"I want to kiss the hangman's rope," said Kamil Mahmoud, a 40-year-old teacher who lost eight family members in the March 16, 1988, attack in Iraq's Kurdish region.

Photos taken after the Halabja attack showed bodies of men, women, children and animals lying in heaps on the streets. (AP)

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1月25日、イラク・旧フセイン政権時代に毒ガス兵器によるクルド人虐殺を指揮した「ケミカル・アリ」ことアリ・ハサン・アルマジド元国防相の絞首刑が執行された。

Shukan ST: February 5, 2010

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