Death Sentence for 'Chemical Ali'

Meanwhile in Iraq

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 11:07AM EDT / Published Jan. 17, 2010 3:10AM EST

The man known as “Chemical Ali,” a cousin and former accomplice of Saddam Hussein, was sentenced to death today on charges of crimes against humanity for a gas attack he helped organize in Halabja, Iraq, that resulted in the deaths of 5,000 Kurds. This is not the first death sentence for Ali Hassan al-Majid—he has been convicted three times for similar attacks that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, part of Hussein’s crackdowns on Shias and Kurds throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Al-Majid’s previous sentences have not been enacted due to complications from a dispute over the conviction of former defense minister Sultan Hasim al-Taie, whom the current president and vice president believe was forced to participate in the attacks.

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Death Sentence for 'Chemical Ali'