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Nearly seven years after his capture, Ali Hassan al-Majid, a notorious henchman of Saddam Hussein's known as Chemical Ali, was executed Jan. 25. An Iraqi court had sentenced the former general, 68, to death by hanging for ordering a poison-gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, in northern Iraq, in 1988. The massacre, which killed about 5,000 people, is believed to be the deadliest chemical attack on civilians in history. That year Majid led a campaign that killed as many as 180,000 Kurds, and in the 1990s his victims included thousands of Shi'ites...
Yale benefited from a balanced offensive attack, which featured goals by six different players. Bulldog Sean Backman paced the team with two assists and the final goal. Little also registered a multi-point game with a goal and an assist...
...short, China is brimming with confidence, and in recent weeks that self-confidence has turned into arrogance, with scorn for the U.S. There is a long legacy of Chinese distrust of the West. Today, Chinese nationalists cannot explicitly criticize Beijing, but they can indirectly attack the government by challenging the close relationship between the U.S. and China. For many in China, the U.S. is a corrupt nation that bears China no goodwill and will drag China down if Beijing doesn't find a way to distance itself from the American economic embrace...
...still occupies prime real estate - just a stone's throw from the residence of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy; it also helps keeps the embassy relatively safe from the occasional jihadist sneak attack. In turn, living close to the Americans may help Assad sleep more easily at night, say Damascene wags, because the proximity of the embassy would make the U.S. and Israel think twice about ever trying to dropping a bomb on him. (See pictures of daily life in Iraq...
...right now. No one expected this. It's a depression." He has a mortgage and is worried he will fall behind and lose his condo. "When I go to bed, I keep the TV on just so I have the noise. If it gets silent, I get a panic attack...