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Article: Powell ends Iraq visit with memorial for chemical weapons victims.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 15, 2003
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Byline: Mike Dorning
HALABJA, Iraq _ Secretary of State Colin Powell finished a two-day visit to Iraq on Monday by paying homage to the victims of one of Saddam Hussein's most notorious atrocities.
Powell journeyed by cargo plane and helicopter to Halabja, a Kurdish town in the northeastern corner of Iraq where 5,000 people died during a chemical weapons attack that Hussein's air force launched on the local population in 1988.
At a memorial for victims, Powell spoke to several hundred relatives, most of them women dressed in traditional black headscarves and some of them holding up pictures of lost husbands and children.
"What can I ...