On 6/6/05, Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/international/middleeast/07trial.html
> >...Investigators have also authenticated Iraqi government documents
> and audiotapes seized by Kurdish militias in the early 1990's. In a
> June 1987 document, Ali Hassan al-Majid, one of Mr. Hussein's cousins
> and top deputies, commanded Iraqi troops "to carry out random
> bombardments using artillery, helicopters, and aircraft at all times
> of the day and night in order to kill the largest number of persons
> present" in areas linked to Kurdish fighters. On an audiotape, Mr.
> Majid, who became known as "Chemical Ali," can be heard shouting, at a
> Baath Party meeting about Kurdish villagers: "I will kill them all
> with chemical weapons."
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