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...former head of the Iraqi army under travel restrictions on charges of complicity in chemical-weapons attacks on Kurds in the late 1980s. General Nizar al-Khazraji, who has lived in Denmark since 1999, was accused of participating in Operation Anfal, which included a 1988 gas attack on Halabja that killed 5,000 Kurdish civilians. Khazraji, a possible successor to Saddam Hussein, said Iraqi secret police had made up the claims to stop him from organizing a dissident movement. KUWAIT In the Firing Line A Kuwaiti policeman, Khalid Messier al-Shimmari, was arrested in Saudi Arabia for shooting and seriously...
...impression that they didn't like President Clinton's support of the Kurds. But why didn't they object to the air strikes on southern Iraq in 1993 and 1994? Why didn't they condemn the bombing of Erbil? The Arab countries condemned the chemical-weapons bombing of Halabja in 1988, which killed 4,000 Kurds, including children and women, and also the tragedy of Anfal, when 182,000 people disappeared. The Arab countries have never accepted the Kurds as a nation. But the Arab countries joined the allied forces to liberate Kuwait just for the reason that Kuwaitis...
...Iraq was the strongest power in the Persian Gulf. Some State Department officials thought tilting back from Baghdad would be prudent. There was ample evidence of brutality by Saddam, including use of poison gas against Iranians during the war and on his own people in the Kurdish city of Halabja, where at least 5,000 civilians were killed. Iraq was also considered a regional bully...
...Saddam avenged Kurdish support of Iran in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. His army used poison gas against the town of Halabja, killing 5,000 Kurds, and destroyed thousands of villages...
...prohibited in Iranian and Syrian schools. In Turkey singing a Kurdish ditty can bring a jail term. Syria has revoked the citizenship of many of its Kurds to punish their rebelliousness. Iraq has expelled tens of thousands of Kurds from their homes, and in 1988 gassed the town of Halabja, killing 5,000 people. The world community scarcely took notice...