[gov_bean_ counter]

I don't. The article "implies" that the last time chemical weapons were used against Iraqi's was 1991. I don't buy it.

[SwatTeam]

I reread the article and I understand it to say the bodies were in the back yard of one of his houses and that they were shot during "parties." That would seem to be a different thing from his gassing the Kurds. But like you, I believe he might have used gas at other times too. The "parties" could have been as recent as the week before we got there.

[SIRTRIS]

"Police who found the grave say General Ali Hassan alMajid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein who got his nickname from the gas attacks he mounted on the Kurds of northern Iraq, used to entertain house guests with a “party game” that involved shooting prisoners tied to metal posts in the garden." What chemical weapons? he had a shooting gallery in the backyard.

[Mr. Silverback]

I can't remember the exact timeframe, but I know our forces found evidence that chemical weapons had been tested on Iraqi prisoners. The evidence was strong enough that I mentioned it in a letter to the editor chiding the local appeaseniks for continuing to put out the "Bush Lied" line when they knew very well that he not only hadn't lied, but that there were WMD traces turning up in Iraq.