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Ali Hassan Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: علي حسن مجيد التكريت, romanized: ʿAlī Ḥasan Majīd al-Tikrītī; c. 1941 – 25 January 2010), nicknamed Chemical Ali (Arabic: علي الكيمياوي, romanized: ʿAlī al-Kīmīawī), was an Iraqi military officer and politician under Saddam Hussein who served as defence ...
Jan 25, 2010 · New York-based Human Rights Watch has said al-Majid was responsible for the deaths or disappearances of around 100,000 non-combatant Kurds when he put down the revolt across the Kurdish region.
Jan 25, 2010 · ʿAlī Ḥasan al-Majīd (born c. 1941, Tikrīt, Iraq—died Jan. 25, 2010, Baghdad) was an Iraqi Baʿth Party official and a cousin of Iraqi Pres. Ṣaddām Ḥussein. During his career he became known for brutal attacks on Iraqi citizens, especially Kurds and Shīʿites.
Apr 7, 2003 · Learn about the Iraqi general who led the genocidal campaign against the Kurds in 1988 and the occupation of Kuwait in 1990. He was killed by U.S. and coalition forces in 2003.
Jan 26, 2010 · Ali Hassan al-Majid was one of the great monsters of the 20th century and carried out one of its vilest crimes. It was he who gave the orders for hundreds of thousands of Kurds to be gassed...
Mar 19, 2013 · Saddam Hussein's first cousin and Iraqi special envoy to Arab leaders Ali Hassan al-Majid is seen shortly after arriving at Beirut airport in Lebanon on Jan. 20, 2003. Adnan Hajj Ali/AP file
Ali Hassan Majid al-Tikriti, nicknamed Chemical Ali, was an Iraqi politician and military commander under Saddam Hussein who served as defence minister, interior minister, and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. He was also the governor of Kuwait during much of the 1990–91 Gulf War.
