This entry was posted on Jan 17 2010 by Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’ to hang for 1988 gas attack (AP)

A man places flowers on the grave of a victim killed in a 1988 chemical attack in Halabja in northern Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin 'Chemical Ali' was convicted Sunday of crimes against humanity and received his fourth death sentence, this time for involvement in one of the worst poison gas attacks ever against civilians. Families of victims in court cheered when the judge handed down the guilty verdict in a trial for the poison gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988 that killed 5,600 people.(AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)AP - Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted Sunday and sentenced to hang for ordering the most infamous of his crimes, the attacks against the Kurdish town of Halabja that killed more than 5,000 people in clouds of poisonous gas.


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