26 Jan 10
Originally posted by Sartor ResartusI am opposed to the death penalty. I think Ali Hassan al-Majid should have been gaoled for life.
Well, none of you have yet 'come out' in protest on this forum for a start, nor have I read of any such protest by your buddies nationally.
26 Jan 10
Originally posted by whodeyWhen Iraq gassed its own Kurdish population in the late 1980s the U.S., knowing full well that Iraq had done it, spun it and blamed Iran and blocked the U.N. from condemning Iraq. A certain degree of distrust is intellectually healthy.
A distrust of the US government? You are sounding more and more "anti-progressive" FMF.
26 Jan 10
Originally posted by Sartor Resartusi wonder if his head popped off like some of the other Iraqi executees.
Strange that we have heard no outburts of protest at the hanging of 'Chemical Ali' from the 'human rights' besotted wallahs who draw back in simulated horror from any suggestion of dealing likewise with his counterparts in the UK.
So why not pay the Iraqis to dispose of them thus killing two birds with one stone, as they say, by eliminating the ter ...[text shortened]... n our midst whilst respecting the delicate susceptibilies of our hypocritical leftwingers?
26 Jan 10
Originally posted by FMFhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack#International_sources_for_technology_and_chemical_precursors
And a concurrent but somewhat more ominous silence, perhaps, in remembrance of the fact that he did most of his chemical things with U.S. blessing, diplomatic cover and material assistance.
International sources for technology and chemical precursors
The know-how and material for developing chemical weapons were obtained by Saddam's regime from foreign firms.[18] The largest suppliers of precursors for chemical weapons production were in Singapore (4,515 tons), the Netherlands (4,261 tons), Egypt (2,400 tons), India (2,343 tons), and West Germany (1,027 tons). One Indian company, Exomet Plastics (now part of EPC Industrie Ltd.) sent 2,292 tons of precursor chemicals to Iraq. The Kim Al-Khaleej firm, located in Singapore and affiliated to United Arab Emirates, supplied more than 4,500 tons of VX, sarin, and mustard gas precursors and production equipment to Iraq.[19]
The provision of chemical precursors from United States companies to Iraq was enabled by a Ronald Reagan administration policy that removed Iraq from the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Leaked portions of Iraq's "Full, Final and Complete" disclosure of the sources for its weapons programs shows that thiodiglycol, a substance needed to manufacture mustard gas, was among the chemical precursors provided to Iraq from US companies such as Alcolac International and Phillips. Both companies have since undergone reorganization and Phillips, once a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum is now part of ConocoPhillips, an American oil and discount fossil fuel company, while Alcolac International has since dissolved and reformed as Alcolac Inc.[20]
On December 23, 2005, a Dutch court sentenced Frans van Anraat, a businessman who bought chemicals on the world market and sold them to Saddam's regime, to 15 years in prison. The Dutch court ruled that Saddam committed genocide against the people of Halabja;[21] this was the first time a court described Halabja attack as an act of genocide. On 12 March 2008, the government of Iraq announced plans to take further legal action against the suppliers of chemicals used in the poison gas attack.[22]
On January 17, 2009, Ali Hassam al-Majid was sentenced to death by a court in occupied Iraq for ordering the attacks on Halabja.[23] . Ali Hassam al-Majid, Chemical Ali, was executed by hanging in Iraq on Monday 25th January 2010 [24]
26 Jan 10
Originally posted by zeeblebotFrom your own gormless cut and paste:
make up your mind, FMF, was Saddam's Iraq a State Sponsor of Terrorism or not?
"The provision of chemical precursors from United States companies to Iraq was enabled by a Ronald Reagan administration policy that removed Iraq from the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Leaked portions of Iraq's "Full, Final and Complete" disclosure of the sources for its weapons programs shows that thiodiglycol, a substance needed to manufacture mustard gas, was among the chemical precursors provided to Iraq from US companies such as Alcolac International and Phillips."
26 Jan 10
Originally posted by FMFWow you must have access to very secret information got a reference for that claim?
And a concurrent but somewhat more ominous silence, perhaps, in remembrance of the fact that he did most of his chemical things with U.S. blessing, diplomatic cover and material assistance.
27 Jan 10
Originally posted by FMFDon't really care, it just sounds like more of your typical "everthing bad anyone has ever done is all America's fault" and I thought you might have some sort of reference because I'd never heard Chemical Ali was somehow backed by the US.
It makes me happy that facts like these knot your shorts, son.
Except for you I still haven't, so we'll just put it in the read and forget file.