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  • Gassed, blindfolded, left for dead: but Saddam cannot destroy my family

    03/17/2003 8:29:22 PM PST · by ganeshpuri89 · 10 replies · 228+ views
    Times Online ^ | Anthony Loyd
    By Anthony Loyd After Saddam Hussein's notorious chemical gas attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988, Mahmoud Fatah didn't know if his family was alive or dead. Our reporter tells the extraordinary story of his quest to find them. THERE WERE FEW second chances in Halabja. The very word has become synonymous with the worst excesses of Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime, and a justification for the imminent invasion of Iraq. Whole families died in each other’s arms on March 16, 1988, in the worst documented chemical attack since the Second World War, succumbing to a combination of blistering...