Iraq’s ‘chemical Ali’ Infamous For 1988 Gas Attack (ap)

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AP – Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, who was hanged Monday, ordered the infamous poison gas attack on the northern Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja in 1988 that killed 5,000 people and earned him the chilling moniker “Chemical Ali.”

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Iraq’s ‘chemical Ali’ Infamous For 1988 Gas Attack (ap)

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