Community | January 25, 2010 | 17 comments

Chemical Ali Executed by Hanging

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Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as “Chemical Ali” has been executed by hanging in Iraq.
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17 comments // Chemical Ali Executed by Hanging

  • courage
  • Guyatthebusstation
  • jac1992
  • idealist
  • deezy_duck
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    • im not defending "ali" but whats the diffrence between him bombing an entire village an the the united states doing it with better technology or hiring black water to do it? remember the kurds have a few militias that blow up malls in turkey and do cross border raids into iran. the pkk has claimed responsibility for many bombings in iraq targeting oil pipe lines and entire iraqi villages. immunity for kurdish radicals just because they do our biding iran, hmm....im just a spectator...

    • 2 years ago
  • flyingkick
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    • The funny part is that in 1988, when this guy was poisoning people, the US and Iraq were BFF'S.
      And the US knew all about the gassing of the Kurds.

      It's only now they're hanging this guy because he has no power.
      It makes you wonder how many other horrible things are happening that the US is OK with at the moment.

    • 2 years ago
  • idealist
  • extblues
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      extblues  
    • flyingkick:

      True, but then we've had a long history of "strategic friendships" with governments and leaders that done some pretty unsavory things. In this particular case it was to counterbalance the Iranian government, who we also supported (...and who also had a reputation for torturing it's citizens) until he was deposed in the late '70's. Indeed, the first Bush administration had a pretty close relationship with Saddam Hussein right up until the start of Gulf War 1.

      This isn't a justification or rationalization of our policies or behavior in the region by any means, but it's a bit of an oversimplification to state that we had anything to do directly with the Kurdish genocide because of our relationship with the Iraqi government at the time. Yes, we provided some of the delivery systems and our intelligence agencies knew about Hussein's hatred for the Kurdish people, but our fingers were hardly on triggers when it happened.

      Welcome to the messy, confusing world of international political relations.

    • 2 years ago
  • flyingkick
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    • flyingkick:

      I never said we had anything directly to do with the gassing of the Kurds. Just that we were OK with it. But I can see how someone could argue that the US is responsible through complicity.
      I'm just pointing out it's funny that we're hanging this guy for something we were cool with a couple decades ago.

    • 2 years ago
  • oppressed1
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    • flyingkick:

      We didn't sentence him so this has nothing to do with if we liked him 20 years ago or not. The people of Iraq put him to death. So regardless of how we felt about him is irrelevant, The people of Iraq have spoken, and they want this bastard dead.

    • 2 years ago
  • Lecti
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    • Yeah, If it were up to me, I'd let any survivors fart in his face until he asphyxiated. See how he likes it. Oh, and his nickname must have been taken from the Rouges Gallery of a early 90's fighter arcade game. Just looking at him: How can we be sure he wasn't one of the many Hussein Doppelgangers?

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
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    • Sometimes we can think we know what the character of a man is, by the news reports.
      Usually you have to see him, see his face - see him in action. See how he is, before we can really have our own opinion.

    • 2 years ago
  • extblues
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      extblues  
    • 02:

      True, in the abstract. But ordering the use of chemical weapons against civilian targets is a pretty good indication of his "character" in spite of any hyperbole generated by the media. The old "I was just following orders" defense when out with Nuremberg.

      Hanging was too good for him. He should have been turned loose somewhere in downtown Mosul...the Kurds would've taken care of the rest.

    • 2 years ago
  • Joshua_Nyholm
  • richjm
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    • It's the fourth time Majid has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity and genocide. His latest sentence, given earlier this month, was for ordering the gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988. About 5,000 people died in that attack.

      According to the BBC, "Majid could have been hanged earlier - after his first death sentence for the Anfal campaign.
      But it was important to Iraqi Kurds to see him convicted of the Halabja attack, seen as one of the worst atrocities of Saddam Hussein's regime."

    • 2 years ago
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