You guys are pathetic.
"Hussein’s cousin ordered to hang for 1988 gassing of Kurds; Attack killed more than 5,000" by Adam Schreck, Associated Press | January 18, 2010
BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin “Chemical Ali’’ was convicted yesterday and sentenced to hang for ordering the most infamous of his crimes, the attacks against the Kurdish town of Halabja that killed more than 5,000 people in clouds of poisonous gas.
The fourth death sentence against Ali Hassan al-Majid for crimes against humanity serves as a reminder that victims of Hussein’s atrocities remain determined to seek justice, as some politicians stoke the lingering bitterness toward the old Sunni-led regime to cement the Shi’ite domination that supplanted it. For the still suffering victims of the assault on Halabja more than two decades ago, the verdict brought a sense of closure to an event that came to symbolize the brutality of Hussein’s rule....
Yeah, the MSM doesn't mention that he was WORKING FOR the U.S. at the time.
Yup, ISRAEL gets a U.S. VETO at the U.N. while IRAQ is INVADED over LIES!!!
In Halabja, residents cheered and songs blared from loudspeakers at a monument commemorating victims of the attack. Some in town visited the cemetery to remember loved ones who died in the gassing. The jubilation demonstrated again the deep-rooted hatred many Iraqis still feel toward the former regime....
Which they now nostalgically look back to as the good old days.
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Yeah, that is right about when the Globe shut down the coverage.
Another senior figure in Hussein’s regime, former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, suffered a severe stroke over the weekend and cannot speak, his son said yesterday from neighboring Jordan.
So what drug did the U.S. give the CHRISTIAN MINISTER?
Didn't know that, didja, readers?
Aziz was for years the chief diplomat of Hussein’s regime. He was convicted and sentenced to prison for his involvement in the forced displacement of Kurds in northern Iraq and the deaths of Baghdad merchants in the 1990s. Aziz was taken last Thursday to a US military hospital in Baghdad for examination, said Lieutenant Colonel Pat Johnson, a US military official.
And he comes back with a STROKE and CAN'T TALK?
So he was DENIED HIS MEDS while in PRISON, huh?
That's torture.
Aziz’s condition is improving, and he is being closely monitored, Johnson said, declining to say more due to privacy concerns....
The 1988 killings remain a source of deep pain, particularly among that community. Many in Halabja still suffer physically from the effects of the nerve and mustard gas that were unleashed on the village at the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War.
And WHO has SUFFERED the PAIN of this SEVEN-YEAR AGGRESSION, MSM?
Pfffffft!
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