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...nickname alone is enough to make many Iraqis shudder, which is not to mention the gruesome memories of how he came by it: overseeing the deadly gassing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds in 1988. So it's no wonder that when Ali Hassan al-Majid was put in charge of defending southern Iraq in the prelude to Gulf War II, some U.S. officials had much the same reaction. Who, after all, would be more qualified to launch a poisonous-gas attack on U.S. forces than the accused war criminal known as Chemical Ali...
...squat, chain-smoking diabetic and former army driver, Chemical Ali has been outranked as a trusted deputy to Saddam only by the Iraqi leader's younger son Qusay. At Saddam's 65th-birthday celebration last year in his hometown of Tikrit, al-Majid stood in for the dictator who was fearful of an assassination attempt. As part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to shore up support for Baghdad, alMajid made recent trips to Libya and Syria but reportedly spent part of the time handing out millions of dollars to build support for his having a leadership role in post...
Prior the tournament, Ruddock had received more personal attacks from opponents than praise. She faced a difficult week of practice coming off a 7-2 loss to Dartmouth in which she was pulled after two periods, and Stone kept her on edge by threatening all week to start freshman Ali Boe in the Frozen Four...
...Brigade's 2nd Battalion that faced the toughest assignment. Their mission was to silence harassing fire from the Tomb of Ali without seriously damaging one of the holiest sites in Islam. They drove Iraqis off, but their return is considered a certainty...
...Wednesday night Kalak was nearly empty. The atmosphere in Erbil was different Thursday morning, somehow lighter. People were happy the war had started, though many of them were worried about people in Baghdad. "Nothing will happen to Erbil," said Ahmed Ali. "We're too far from Baghdad for them to attack...