2010, ISBN: 9781156724378

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ali Hassan Al-Majid, Thaksin Shinawatra, Anwar Ibrahim, Álvaro Uribe, Geert Wilders, Ghazali Shafie, Menachem Porush, C.s. Hyman. Excerpt: Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti Al asan Abd al-Majd al-Tikrt, Arabic: , (30 November 1941 25 January 2010) was a Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ali Hassan Al-Majid, Thaksin Shinawatra, Anwar Ibrahim, Álvaro Uribe, Geert Wilders, Ghazali Shafie, Menachem Porush, C.s. Hyman. Excerpt: Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti Al asan Abd al-Majd al-Tikrt, Arabic: , (30 November 1941 25 January 2010) was a Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister, Interior Minister, military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. He was also the governor of occupied Kuwait during the Gulf War.A first cousin of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, he became notorious in the 1980s and 1990s for his role in the Iraqi government's campaigns against internal opposition forces, namely the ethnic Kurdish rebels of the north, and the Shia religious dissidents of the south. Repressive measures included deportations and mass killings; al-Majid was dubbed "Chemical Ali " by Iraqi Kurds for his use of chemical weapons in attacks against them. Al-Majid was captured following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. He was convicted in June 2007 and was sentenced to death for crimes committed in the al-Anfal campaign of the 1980s. His appeal of the death sentence was rejected on 4 September 2007, and he was sentenced to death for the fourth time on 17 January 2010 and was hanged eight days later, on 25 January 2010. Early life Ali Hassan al-Majid is thought to have been born in 1941 in al-Awja near Tikrit, though he claimed in court that he was born three years later in 1944. The U.S. , the United Nations and the Bank of England have also listed an alternative birth year of 1943. 1939 and 1940 have also emerged as possible birth years. Still, official Iraqi court documents and the vast majority of journalistic obituaries cite 1941 as his approximate year of birth. Books, , 20th-Century-Politicians~~Books-LLC, 999999999, 20th-Century Politicians: Thaksin Shinawatra, Books LLC (Editor), 1156724376, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<