’Chemical Ali’ sentenced to death
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:07 am
Linkarooni - I hope it's long, slow and VERY painful.
’Chemical Ali’ sentenced to death
Darko Vojinovic / The Associated Press A special Iraqi court sentenced "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid, to death Dec. 2 after convicting him of crimes against humanity for his part in crushing the 1991 Shiite uprising in southern Iraq.
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Dec 2, 2008 15:32:17 EST
BAGHDAD — A special Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein’s cousin “Chemical Ali” al-Majid to death for his role in the 1991 suppression of a Shiite uprising.
Former Baath party official Abdul-Ghani Abdul-Ghafur also received a death sentence Tuesday at the end of the trial that began in August 2007. He shouted “down with the Persian-U.S. occupation” as the sentence was read.
Four defendants received life sentences, six face 15-year sentences and three were acquitted.
Chemical Ali is already under death sentence for the crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.
Former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai also faces the gallows in the Kurdish crackdown but was among those receiving a 15-year sentence Tuesday.
