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...Marcone of the 3rd Battalion 69th Armor Regiment said his men had killed 800 of the Republican Guard Medina Division; not a single American died. The U.S. notched tangible victories--roads secured, armies routed. But no less important were the symbolic gains. U.S. warplanes attacked the home of Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam's cousin and a member of his inner circle, widely known as Chemical Ali because of allegations that he ordered the gassing that killed some 5,000 Kurds in 1988. No battle was complete, it seemed, until American forces had torn down a Saddam poster or toppled...
...just a few miles away from the home of Ali Hassan al-Majid, a.k.a. 'Chemical Ali,' the Saddam confidant who was killed in Basra a few weeks ago. The villages around here are peopled by tribes that have close ties to the Saddam regime, but nearly all of them seem to be sending out word to the Peshmerga that they want to talk - not fight...
...didn't help when the cleric, Hassan Mussawi, began talking about his party. Asked asked about reports that his forces are looting the local people, he responded, "People who accuse us of looting are extremists who are against national unity." The best answer he can come up with when asked about the seven late model Nissan's and a very new looking Mercedes in the courtyard is, "This is what the people give us to fight Saddam." When asked if the U.S. supplies the vast quantities of food his men have on hand he says, "We are self financing...
...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...
...Hassan stalks through the cancer ward of the Basra hospital where several children lie hooked up to intravenous drips. She shows hideous photographs of damaged children, many of them little more than lumps of meat. Those did not make it, but there are plenty that would survive if only they had some medication. But these are poor people and cannot afford medicines. Cancer drugs, for instance, fall under the dual use category and are listed under UN sanctions. So, although medical services are highly subsidized in Iraq, these children can have no treatment. Leukemia patients are given a blood transfusion...