Saddam Hussein's cousin 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death for poison gas attack which killed 5,000

Daily Mail online ^ | Jan 17, 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

[driftdiver]

Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" has been sentenced to death by hanging for his involvement in a poison gas attack on the city of Halabja.

Families of some of the 5,000 Kurds killed in the 1988 attack cheered when the guilty verdict against Ali Hassan al-Majid was handed down Sunday.

Other officials in Saddam's regime, including former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim al-Taie, also received jail terms at the Iraqi High Tribunal.

The brutal attack on Halabja close to the Iranian border 22 years ago killed mostly women and children through a series of mustard and nerve gas bombings by Iraqi aircraft. Those who survived have been prone to developing cancer and birth defects are also common.

[driftdiver]

Don't remember hearing anything about this.

[James C. Bennett]

For the fourth time or so, I’ve read.

[Doogle]

hear about it yesterday

ba-bye

[theDentist]

He’s been sentence to dangle several times before. Each time he’s given a date, the authorities file new charges and demand he stand trial yet again. Interesting way to escape death, demand to go to trial for new capital charges.

[Eddie01]

Now if they could just figure out a way to extend the feeder on a cold cut slicer - start with the feet...

[Candor7]

Ali was not alone. There were dozens of others and every one of those geniocidal maniacs should hang. Ali is a scapegoat. Genoncide is a crime against humanity but you never had the International Criminal Court of the Hague chiming in on this one!

And to think that BJ Clinton LET, yes LET this happen simply because the Kurds allied with George Bush Senior? BJ let the Kurds die by the thousands and is just as bad as Ali IMHO. BJ also let the Tutsi commit genocide in Rwanda, didn't lift a finger.

Thats why I call BJ Clinton the genocide president.

Obama is much worse than Clinton ever dared to be, you will see this before we are rid of Obama. Obama helped his cousin Odinga create tribal genocide in Kenya in 2006/2007, and unfortunately Obama will do so again.

[Candor7]

[Eagle Eye]

I believe that this was some of the stuff Ali used.

[Rome2000]

I thought HUSSEIN didn't have any chemical weapons?

At least, thats what the red sons of bitches in control of Congress and the press keep saying over and over again.

[Candor7]

Sarin Gas?

These do not qualify as weapons of mass destruction according to the liberal leftist a44hats, evenafter 5000 innocents were gassed in genocide.

It really is a travesty for the leftist idiots to say that. I believe that Dubyah liberated 57 million Iraqis, and many of us should start yelling it out.

[Anti-Hillary]

That wasteof skin is still alive?? Should have sent him to the depths of hell a long time ago.

[Anti-Hillary]

That wasteof skin is still alive?? Should have sent him to the depths of hell a long time ago.

[Eagle Eye]

Di Methylsulfate or DMS. That and chlorine containers in the same weapons bunker.

TECHNICALLY...they are considered toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) because they have legitimate industrial uses as opposed to sarin which has no legitimate no weapon use.

However, they can be weaponized. DMS is a cousin of mustard.

Yes, these pics are for real and were taken in a weapons bunker at a base in Iraq.

[Candor7]

Its a laugh that the left keeps talkinng about a lack of weapons of mass destruction. Saddam maintained power with the threat of WMD.

[Candor7]

BTW, thanks for these photos. They are historically significant, whch is why I pinged Fred and Beckwith

[calex59]

You don’t remember the attack or you don’t remember the trial? The attack was well publicized with pictures of the kurds lying in heaps, children, women etc. It is the main argument against the idiots saying there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They used gas to kill these kurds, if that isn’t a weapon of mass destruction I then I will eat my hat. The pictures were horrifying(an old fart used to many injustices doesn’t use horrifying lightly).

[driftdiver]

I don’t remember our faithful MSM covering this recently.

[jwalsh07]

Really good pictures EE.

Happy New Year.

[driftdiver]

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/di-sulfa.html

DMS

Acute (short-term) exposure of humans to the vapors of dimethyl sulfate may cause severe inflammation and necrosis of the eyes, mouth, and respiratory tract. Acute oral or inhalation exposure to dimethyl sulfate primarily damages the lungs but also injures the liver, kidneys, heart, and central nervous system (CNS), while dermal contact with dimethyl sulfate may produce severe blistering in humans. Human data on the carcinogenic effects of dimethyl sulfate are inadequate. Tumors have been observed in the nasal passages, lungs, and thorax of animals exposed to dimethyl sulfate by inhalation.

[calex59]

That’s because they haven’t, they barely covered it when it happened.

[Fred Nerks]

thanks for the ping, Candor - I don’t expect to see much of what really happened to the thousands of Kurdish villagers in the US ‘news’ - they didn’t show the thousands Saddam poisoned from the air before the war, they didn’t show it during the war, and they certainly won’t show it now.

[Eagle Eye]

I took these and made my report back in ‘04.

[Candor7]

Hi Fred. Things are hot in Massachusetts.Beckwith has a report on his pages. The tide is turning, hopefully not too late. Yes, the left has studiously ignored Clinton's and Obama's support of genocide in Rwanda, Kurdistan,and Kenya. But we leave spoor for the future, when the left will again accept genocide or perpetrate it. Its all the same to the left. I actually fear for the Haitian people.They are quickly discovering that Obama is no saviour.The only aid they will get will be politically correct, which may mean very little aid and a lot of force designed to evacuate Haiti wholesale to the USA ( votes for 2012 and a very large "race card.").They will fight him of course, when they discover what game is afoot.The risk of genocide is very real in Haiti now.

[Candor7]

Y9ou will have several Freepers interested in what you saw. Beckwith maybe one of them

[Eagle Eye]

Thanks and Best Wishes to you and yours as well.

[JRios1968]

[driftdiver]

Its really too bad you can only hang these guys once.

[Eagle Eye]

I didn’t expect the DMS when I went to investigate the bunker and really didn’t know what it was until I was able to research it a couple hours later.

As I read the MSDS and other literature I began to cough, sniff, have some itching and felt a little tightness in my chest...and I had to reassure myself that I was only experiencing psychosomatic symptoms as I read the signs and symptoms of exposure.

It’s funny now of course.

[driftdiver]

“It’s funny now of course.”

Funny in a sick kinda of way.

Good thing you never found any WMD. sheesh

[Eagle Eye]

Good thing WMD's, mass graves, and buried aircraft were all rumors.

[driftdiver]

How would they ever get those to fly again after burying them?

[Eagle Eye]

They had them submerged in the wadi's around Al Asad as well. Not like this one though they were totally hidden except from the air.