March 02, 2009

Chemical Ali Meet Noose

He was just given his third death sentence.

Will they hang him three times? Sounds like a good idea to me.

Saddam Hussein's top henchman and cousin 'Chemical Ali' was given his third death sentence by an Iraqi court today, this one for his involvement in killing and displacing Shi'ite Muslims in 1999.

Ali Hassan al-Majeed, who earned notoriety for his role in using poison gas to kill thousands of Kurdish villagers, was condemned to death for "premeditated killing as a crime against humanity" and displacing civilians in raids on their homes.[...]

His previous sentences were for masterminding a genocidal campaign against Kurds in the 1980s and killing thousands of Shi'ites in a crackdown on their uprising after the 1991 Gulf War. Those executions have been held up by political wrangling.

Third time is the charm, so they say.

By Stable Hand at 01:39 PM | |