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January 26, 2010

“Chemical Ali” Executed In Iraq
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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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