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FILES-IRAQ-TRIAL-CHEMICALALI-KURDS
(FILES)--A handout picture released by the Iranian official news agency IRNA shows two Kurdish children killed by an Iraqi chemical attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja in northeastern Iraq, 16 March 1988. On that day the Kurdish village was attacked by Iraqi jets that swooped over the village for five hours spraying it with a deadly cocktail of mustard gas and the nerve agents Tabun, Sarin and VX. An estimated 5000 people were killed. Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Saddam Hussein's enforcer "Chemical Ali" was on January 17, 2010, was sentenced to death for ordering the gassing of Kurds in the Iraqi village of Halabja, state television said. AFP PHOTO/IRNA
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HALABJA, IRAQ |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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17 Ianuarie 2010 |
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2048 x 1286 (1.32 MB) |
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