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Monday, April 07, 2003

Bye cuz
Is "Chemical Ali" History? British forces are saying they discovered the body of Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam's cousin and arguably the most ruthless person in the Iraqi regime. I still recall watching captured Iraqi videotape of him directing operations in the south in 1991 when Iraqi forces crushed the Shiite uprising. The film showed prisoners being dragged off to be shot, while one weeping prisoner was caught on film praying. This so irritated one Iraqi officer that he cocked his gun, but strangely he did not shoot the man on the spot.

Disappointment reigns: Al-Majid deserved a far worse death.

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