The BBC reports Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Iraqi official known as “Chemical Ali”, has been executed by hanging, a government spokesman has announced.
Majid, an enforcer in Saddam Hussein’s regime and his cousin, had earlier been sentenced to death four times for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Earlier this month, he was sentenced to death for ordering the gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988.
I do not understand why it took nearly a quarter of a century to convict and execute Ali Hassan al-Majid for such dastardly crimes. By the way, where did he get that gas?