(Telegraph-UK) Colin Freeman - Gruesome tapes of Saddam Hussein's most feared henchman threatening to cut up his thousands of victims "like cucumbers" have been disclosed as Iraqi war-crimes judges began court proceedings against him on Saturday. Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam's cousin and the man nicknamed "Chemical Ali" for gassing up to 5,000 Kurds, is thought to have been responsible for murdering up to 150,000 Kurdish men, women and children.
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