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Iraq

Time growing short for "Chemical Ali"

2007-10-18

Should we headline this "Today's Noose"? (rimshot)
The man known as Chemical Ali for ordering poison gas attacks against the Kurds in the 1980s has been flown by helicopter from a United States base to a site near a prison gallows in Baghdad, an Iraqi police official said Wednesday, suggesting that his execution was imminent.

The prisoner, Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein, was sentenced on June 24 to death for his role in the Anfal or "spoils of war" campaign that killed as many as 180,000 Kurds.

An appeals court upheld Majid's sentence on Sept. 4, clearing the way for his execution within 30 days, as required under Iraqi law.
He's at the end of his rope, as it were. (rimshot)
The execution was delayed, however, in a legal dispute over whether Majid and two other top officials convicted for their roles in the Kurdish campaign should be killed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ended last week.
So instead of hanging, he was left hanging. (rimshot)
The feast celebrating the end of Ramadan, Id al-Fitr, wound up on Sunday for Sunnis and on Monday for Shiites.

Posted by:Mike

#4 Sung to "September Song"
Kurt Weill

When he was a young man
Schmoozing Saddam,
He left morals and values at the door,
Then Saddam saw his true worth,
And brought him along,
Saddam came to trust him,
Its the same old song,

Then time came to lash out,
He was never the same,
Cold evil jerk that he was...

Cold evil jerk that he was...

It mattered not to him,
Whether be Persians or Kurds,
The mustard gas flowed
And no one said a word.

Saddams big go to guy,
Was Chemical Ali,
But ol Saddam met his noose
And so will he

The hour grows near,
Gallows are prepared,
Last meal is consumed,
Then he climbs the stairs

And the last thing that he should see,
If justice is true,
And the folks he maimed,
When the gas came through

Posted by: Ogeretla 2007 2007-10-18 14:57

#3 he must be tied up in knots over this.

Posted by: Unutle McGurque8861 2007-10-18 14:16

#2 The anticipation must be killing him.

Posted by: gorb 2007-10-18 13:55

#1 Good to see the process goes on, even though world attention ceased the minute Saddam's last leaked photo was published. I hear our support to the tribunal is about to drop to very little, however, so I hope that somehow the Iraqis manage to conduct the remaining trials and use all the developed evidence (faint hope, I must say).

Posted by: Verlaine 2007-10-18 12:16

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