[lbo-talk] 'Chemical Ali': Is He Dead, or Still Alive? (NY Times)

[Jim Farmelant]

This war becomes more and more curious.
First, the missing WMDs and now this.  During
the midst of the war, the Pentagon and the
Bush Administration made a very big deal about
the death of 'Chemical Ali', in an air raid.  Now
Rumsfeld admits that he may still be alive and
at large.  Now where's Baghdad Bob when
we need him?

Jim F.

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'Chemical Ali': Is He Dead, or Still Alive?

June 6, 2003
By THE NEW YORK TIMES 

WASHINGTON, June 5 - The Iraqi military commander known as
"Chemical Ali" for his role in using chemical weapons
against the Kurdish minority may still be alive, Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today. 

American officials had previously speculated that the Iraqi
commander, Ali Hassan al-Majid, had been killed in a
bombing raid in Basra in April. 

A cousin of Saddam Hussein, Mr. Majid has been accused of
war crimes for unleashing mustard gas against civilians in
1988. 

Mr. Rumsfeld said today that he did not know the status of
Chemical Ali, whom American troops had been tracking prior
to the bombing. 

"They attacked locations where they believed him to be,"
Mr. Rumsfeld said. 

"There was some speculation afterwards that they thought
that he had been killed. Now there's some speculation that
he may be alive. But I just don't know."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/international/worldspecial/06CHEL.html?
ex=1055903913&ei=1&en=597cc62f83d61f62

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Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company



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