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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/world/middleeast/26execute.html
Saddam Hussein Aide "Chemical Ali" Executed in Iraq
(New York Times) Nada Bakri - Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, a symbol of the former government of Saddam Hussein, who ordered a poison gas attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja in northern Iraq in which more than 5,000 Kurds died, was executed on Monday. In court cases that began in August 2006, Majid was handed eight death sentences for crimes that ranged from Halabja to a campaign at the end of the Iran-Iraq war in which at least 180,000 Kurds were killed and thousands of others displaced. He was also convicted for his role in crushing a Shiite uprising in southern Iraq in 1991, in which thousands were killed and displaced.