"Chemical Ali" Sentenced to Death

World | June 24, 2007, Sunday // 00:00

A cousin and key aide of the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by an Iraqi court for the mass murder of Kurds in 1988.

Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for gassing to death about 180,000 Iraqi Kurds, was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Two fellow defendants were also sentenced to death, two others received prison sentences and a fifth had charges dropped for lack of proof.

Saddam had also been on trial for the Anfal campaign when he was executed in December 2006 for other crimes.

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