thedrifter
08-21-03, 07:50 AM
'Chemical Ali' Captured in Iraq
Thursday, August 21, 2003
"Chemical Ali" has been captured, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday morning.
Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikriti (search), a first cousin of former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein linked to some of the regime's most brutal acts, is the King of Spades and No. 5 in the U.S. Army's deck of "Most Wanted" playing cards.
No details were available on where he was found, but he was believed to have been captured a few days ago.
Reuters reported Thursday morning that an American soldier had been killed and two others wounded in an attack in Baghdad.
Ali got his nickname by supervising chemical attacks upon Kurdish civilians the regime accused of aiding Iranian forces during the last years of the Iran-Iraq war. Thousands of Kurds died — 5,000 in one attack upon the town of Halabja (search) in March 1988.
Ali has also been linked to crackdowns on Shiites in southern Iraq, and was governor of Kuwait during Iraq's seven-month occupation of the emirate in 1990-1991.
Ali is the uncle of Lt. Gen. Hussein Kamel al-Majid (search), the Saddam son-in-law who ran Iraq's clandestine weapons programs before defecting to Jordan with his brother, another Saddam son-in-law, in 1995. The brothers were lured back to Iraq with promises of clemency, but once back in Baghdad were forced to divorce Saddam's daughters and then killed.
Before the 1968 revolution, Ali was a motorcycle messenger in the Iraqi army. Under his cousin's rule, he was defense minister from 1991 to 1995.
American forces thought they had killed Ali during the first weeks of the war when they bombed his house in Basra, but it became clear within several days that he had escaped.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95314,00.html
Sempers,
Roger
:marine:
Thursday, August 21, 2003
"Chemical Ali" has been captured, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday morning.
Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikriti (search), a first cousin of former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein linked to some of the regime's most brutal acts, is the King of Spades and No. 5 in the U.S. Army's deck of "Most Wanted" playing cards.
No details were available on where he was found, but he was believed to have been captured a few days ago.
Reuters reported Thursday morning that an American soldier had been killed and two others wounded in an attack in Baghdad.
Ali got his nickname by supervising chemical attacks upon Kurdish civilians the regime accused of aiding Iranian forces during the last years of the Iran-Iraq war. Thousands of Kurds died — 5,000 in one attack upon the town of Halabja (search) in March 1988.
Ali has also been linked to crackdowns on Shiites in southern Iraq, and was governor of Kuwait during Iraq's seven-month occupation of the emirate in 1990-1991.
Ali is the uncle of Lt. Gen. Hussein Kamel al-Majid (search), the Saddam son-in-law who ran Iraq's clandestine weapons programs before defecting to Jordan with his brother, another Saddam son-in-law, in 1995. The brothers were lured back to Iraq with promises of clemency, but once back in Baghdad were forced to divorce Saddam's daughters and then killed.
Before the 1968 revolution, Ali was a motorcycle messenger in the Iraqi army. Under his cousin's rule, he was defense minister from 1991 to 1995.
American forces thought they had killed Ali during the first weeks of the war when they bombed his house in Basra, but it became clear within several days that he had escaped.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95314,00.html
Sempers,
Roger
:marine: