|
|
Article: IRAQ - May 17 - Chemical Ali Denies Role In Gas Attacks On Kurds.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- May 19, 2007
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 Input Solutions. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
For the man Iraqis know as Chemical Ali, the trial that heard its last testimony in Baghdad last week was always likely to be the prelude to an end on the gallows. But Ali Hassan al-Majid, once the most feared man in Iraq after Saddam Hussain, used his last address at the so-called Anfal trial to protest his innocence of the poison-gas attacks against Iraqi Kurds that earned him his grim sobriquet. At the time of the attacks, in 1987 and 1988, Majid had plenary powers over all aspects of the Iraqi offensives against the Kurds. "I never issued an order for the use of these weapons; I never heard of them being used; and I have no knowledge of who used them, if in fact they ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Chemical Ali claims innocenceAt trial end, ...
International Herald Tribune;
May 15, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... For the man Iraqis know as Chemical Ali, the trial that heard its ... most feared man in Iraq after Saddam Hussein, used his last address ... 2003, all the top leaders of Saddam's Iraq have pleaded innocent ... country.Majid, a cousin of Saddam's, has been no exception ...
|
|