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Saddam, a Sunni Arab, headed Iraq's branch of the Baath party, which was founded in Syria in the 1940s as a socialist, secularist force toiling for pan-Arab unity. In Iraq, it stamped out opposition under Saddam, killing tens of thousands of majority...
Tags: Iraqi Cabinet, Saddam Hussein, chemical ali, mass grave, presidential council
Iraq's special criminal court on Monday acquitted Tariq Aziz, the man who once served as the urbane, cigar-smoking public face of Saddam Hussein's rule, delivering the most significant not guilty verdict in a series of prosecutions for crimes against...
Tags: Iraqi High Tribunal, Saddam Hussein, Tariq Aziz, deaths sentenced, Tareq Aziz, iraqis court, Chemical Ali, Ali Hassan al-Majid
Monday. “The session was presided over by Judge Raouf Rasheed,” Judge Aref al-Shahin told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Several International organizations estimated that nearly one million Iraqi Feyli Kurds were displaced by force between the years 1970...
16 former Iraqi officials have been sent back to trial because of crimes commited against the Shi'a Kurds in the 90s. Among these officials areTarek Aziz and Ali Hassan al Majid, also known as Chemical Ali (because he decided the best way to solve...
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It is a long way from the band's beginnings in Baghdad, in the final decade of Saddam Hussein's dictatorial rule...They put adverts in the Iraqi press to find other band members...Not that Iraq's religious and sectarian divisions matter to the band...The...
Tags: saddam, Iraq Appeals, Come Home Iraq, chemical ali, Iraqi
Iraq war that toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein after the US-led invasion in March 2003. (Reuters)
Tags: Iraqi, Aswat al-Iraq, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Chemical Ali, Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, death sentenced, Congress, John Hostettler, Mr Bush
Chemical Ali' on trial denies killing civilians A cousin and top deputy of Saddam Hussein on Sunday denied opening fire on Iraqi civilians during a Shiite uprising in 1991 but acknowledged executing an Iranian national accused of sabotage...A cousin and...
Tags: saddam, Shia Iraqis, Saddam Hussein, denies opening, Chemical Ali
-- An attorney says a cousin of Saddam Hussein known as "Chemical Ali" has been hospitalized after going on a hunger strike. Lawyer Badee Izzat Aref says Ali Hassan al-Majid and a co-defendant were admitted to a U.S. medical facility Sunday after they...
Tags: chemical ali, U.S, Baghdad
Agencies Published: March 19, 2008, 14:40 Baghdad: The Iraqi government wants to execute three aides of former president Saddam Hussein together, including his cousin "Chemical Ali",Iraqi media reported on Wednesday. Ali Hassan Al-Majid, also known
Tags: Iraqi Kurdistan, Saddam Hussein, Halabjah, chemical ali
The Iraqi government is negotiating with American and European oil companies to manage the development of five new fields in northern and southern Iraq , an Oil Ministry official said Wednesday...The oil minister, Hussain al-Sharistani, is in Vienna
Tags: Iraqi, chemical ali, oil fields, European Companies