Saddam Hussein's cousin 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A special Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," to death for his role in the 1991 suppression of a Shi'ite uprising.
"Chemical Ali," whose real name is Ali Hassan al-Majid, is already under death sentence for the crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.
Former Baath party official Abdul-Ghani Abdul-Ghafur also received a death sentence Tuesday at the end of the trial that began in August 2007.
Four defendants received life sentences, six face 15-year sentences and three were acquitted.
Former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai also faces the gallows in the 1980s Kurdish crackdown but is among those receiving a 15-year sentence Tuesday.
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