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\"\"<\/a>New York-<\/strong> My former editor and colleague at Asia Times Online<\/a>, Charles McDermid, has an article today with local Suleimani-based reporter\u00a0Rebaz Mahmood on the fourth and perhaps ultimate death sentence for “Chemical” Ali Hassan al-Majid, the most brutal enforcer of the al-Anfal campaign in northern Iraq in 1988. Charles is now working in Iraqi Kurdistan for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting<\/a> and is gearing up for coverage of the Iraqi general elections to be held on March 7th by the Independent High Electoral Commission<\/a> of Iraq (which is meant to coincide with the “Status of Forces Agreement<\/a>” referendum on the future of U.S. troops in the Republic of Iraq). Almost seven years after the United States military and its allies tried to erase the legacy of Saddam Hussein by destroying Iraq in order to try and save it, or remake it into a pro-Israel, emasculated Arab client state of neoconservative folly, the legacy of Ba’athism and Halabja continue to haunt the politics of this shattered post-Ottoman successor state.<\/p>\n


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New York- My former editor and colleague at Asia Times Online, Charles McDermid, has an article today with local Suleimani-based reporter\u00a0Rebaz Mahmood on the fourth and perhaps ultimate death sentence for “Chemical” Ali Hassan al-Majid, the most brutal enforcer of…<\/p>\n

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