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Article: Kurds say Iraq's attacks serve as a warning: As Bush considers toppling Saddam Hussein, victims of Hussein's 'gassing' tell of his tactics.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 13, 2002
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Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
HALABJA, NORTHERN IRAQ -- As American military planners consider ways to bring down Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Kurds warn that the Iraqi leader will likely respond to any such attack by deploying weapons of mass destruction - as he has done in the past.
The memory of every Iraqi Kurd is seared with vivid images of Baghdad's 1988 genocide against its own ethnic Kurds when troops loyal to the Iraqi strongman were under orders to kill every Kurdish male in northern Iraq between the ages of 18 and 55. During the Anfal campaign, rights groups say more than 100,000 men disappeared, 4,000 ...