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Article: Court Gives Chemical Ali 3rd Death Sentence & Acquits 'Azis.
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- APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map
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- March 9, 2009
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The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) on March 2 convicted 'Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali), a cousin of former Sunni/Ba'thist dictator Saddam Hussein, who ordered poison gas attacks against the Kurds in the 1980s and had a role in a series of killings, including the 1999 murder of Ayatullah Muhammad-Sadeq al-Sadr (father of the anti-US Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr). The IHT sentenced Majid to death for a third time.
The IHT acquitted Tareq 'Aziz, the man who once served as the urbane public face of the dictatorship and the only Christian in Saddam's government, delivering the most significant not-guilty verdict in a series of prosecutions for crimes against ...