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Iraq
Chemical Ali executed
2010-01-25
"jeez...is it always this hot here?"
Iraq's government spokesman says Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was executed Monday about a week after being sentenced to death for the poison gas attacks that killed more than 5,000 Kurds in 1988.

News of the hanging came shortly after three suicide car bombs struck downtown Baghdad. It was not immediately clear whether the attacks were linked the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid.

Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh confirmed the execution took place.

Al-Majid - widely known as "Chemical Ali" for the gas attacks - was convicted on Sunday for ordering the poison gas to be dropped on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988 as part of a campaign against a Kurdish uprising.

It was the fourth death sentence against him for crimes against humanity.
Posted by:Frank G

#12  Something like "Paybacks are a..."
Posted by: anymouse   2010-01-25 23:50  

#11  Enjoy your reunion with your buddy Sad-Ass in HELL, assh*le.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-01-25 22:00  

#10  Did he get the gas chamber?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2010-01-25 19:14  

#9  So Long, Farewell,
Aufweiderzahn, Goodbye!
Posted by: Von Trapp Family   2010-01-25 18:47  

#8  "NEVER SAY NEVER" WHEN DEALING WID ZOMBIES. Theres been more than enough Zombies to go around in this GWOT.

E.G. DA ARNUUULD in "ERASER" = "YOU'VE BEEN ERASED".

* ABU MUSAB ZARQHAWI PIC > MSM-NET PIC of alleged Founder of UIGHUR "EAST TURKESTAN" INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT" IS SAME PIC FOR PERSONAGE WHOM REPOR = "VERIFIABLY"? DIED IN IRAQ FEW YEARS BEFORE, as per US air strike.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-01-25 17:58  

#7  I'll bet the post-event celebrations were a gas.
Posted by: gorb   2010-01-25 15:57  

#6  And the lovely and talented microbilogist Rihab Taha aka Dr. Germ, when will she be brought to justice?
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-01-25 14:08  

#5  Chemical Ali meets his well-deserved end-zyme.
Posted by: Mike   2010-01-25 13:18  

#4  ...and we should have done the same for the slack jaws at gitmo that admitted to their crimes such as 9/11 instead of having a political circus in New York for the benefit of whom? of BO and Eric Holder.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-01-25 12:15  

#3  Alternate headline: "Ex-Baathist joins the necktie party."
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2010-01-25 12:12  

#2  There would have been some poetic justice if he had been sent to the gas chamber.
Posted by: JFM   2010-01-25 12:04  

#1  Just another swingin' uh, dork...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2010-01-25 11:53  

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