[lbo-talk] Desert Graves in Northern Iraq Yield Evidence to Try Hussein

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 7 07:19:23 PDT 2005


Michael Pugliese 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."

Wow, you mean Saddam Hussein's regime was brutal and murderous? The things you learn from the newspapers!

Doug



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