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New York Times
April 22, 2008
Pg. 12
By New York Times
BAGHDAD — Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, who is known as Chemical Ali, has been taken to an American military hospital after suffering a heart attack while in custody awaiting execution, officials said.
Maj. Brad Leighton, an American military spokesman in Baghdad, confirmed that Mr. Majid was in a hospital after “falling ill,” saying only that he was “in a stable condition.”
He was admitted on Sunday, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss his condition.
Mr. Majid was among three of Mr. Hussein’s lieutenants who were sentenced to death by an Iraqi court last June after they were found guilty of using poisonous gas against Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s.
However, their executions have been delayed because of a disagreement between Iraq’s Shiite-led government and its Presidency Council about whether the death penalty should be carried out. In the meantime they remain in American custody.
April 22, 2008
Pg. 12
By New York Times
BAGHDAD — Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, who is known as Chemical Ali, has been taken to an American military hospital after suffering a heart attack while in custody awaiting execution, officials said.
Maj. Brad Leighton, an American military spokesman in Baghdad, confirmed that Mr. Majid was in a hospital after “falling ill,” saying only that he was “in a stable condition.”
He was admitted on Sunday, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss his condition.
Mr. Majid was among three of Mr. Hussein’s lieutenants who were sentenced to death by an Iraqi court last June after they were found guilty of using poisonous gas against Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s.
However, their executions have been delayed because of a disagreement between Iraq’s Shiite-led government and its Presidency Council about whether the death penalty should be carried out. In the meantime they remain in American custody.