| Ali Hassan Majeed, commander of Iraq's southern military region and known as "Chemical Ali" by opposition groups, has taken refuge in a hospital in the southern city of Nasiriyah, a Shiite Iraqi opposition leader in Iran said Friday. Majeed moved his command to the hospital in Nasiriyah, 208 kilometers (129 miles) northwest of Basra, ahead of the expected US attacks, said Mohsen Hakim, son of Abdul Aziz Hakim, the second-in-command of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq based in Iran. Mohsen Hakim also told AFP that the Iraqi army has killed the son of a tribe leader in southern Iraq for refusing to cooperate. |