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“Chemical Ali” Executed In Iraq

HeadlineJan 26, 2010

In other news from Iraq, another top official from Saddam Hussein’s government has been executed. Ali Hassan al-Majid was hanged Monday after receiving four death sentences. The man nicknamed “Chemical Ali” was accused of overseeing the gassing of 5,000 people in the Kurdish village of Halabja in 1988.

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