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| | Halabja poison gas attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hussein has repeatedly denied the Tribunal's legitimacy (claiming it to be a "play" of American "theatre"), and refused to sign documents reflecting the charges against him during his first public court appearance. | | | Almost all current accounts of the incident regard Iraq as the party responsible for the gas attack, which occurred during the Iran-Iraq War. | | | The CIA altered its position radically in the late 1990s and cited Halabja frequently in its evidence of WMD before the 2003 invasion [4] |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack
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| | Secretary Powell Honors Halabja Victims |
| | For those who have studied the literature of Holocaust denial, the parallels with the denial of Halabja and the genocide of the Kurds are striking. | | | BECAUSE OF AMERICAN-BRITISH LED LIBERATION OF IRAQ, we arE free from saddam's TYRANNY. | | | Powell was enthusiastically welcomed by thousands of citizens of Halabja, some of whom lost up to two dozen relatives in the deadliest use of gas since World War II. |
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http://www.puk.org/web/htm/news/nws/paul_halabja030915.html
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| | President's Radio Address (Remembering Halabja) |
| | Roberts is convinced Western governments are content to have Halabja remain a forgotten town because of what he says is the complicity of Western chemical companies that supplied President Saddam Hussein's government with the chemicals that went into his deadly weapons. | | | She is the first scientist who has been able to view Halabja with an expert eye. | | | Together she and Roberts are trying to mobilize world governments and aid agencies to end what they see as the scandalous 10-year neglect of Halabja. |
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http://www.apfn.org/Saddam-Hussein/radio.htm
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| | KURDISTAN NEWSLINE -March 16, 2003 |
| | Star Hussein Allahkerem, 46, another survivor of the attack, recalled in his home in Halabja earlier this week how the West, including the United States, was supporting the Iraqi president at the time of the attack in his war against neighboring Iran. | | | More than most, the people of Halabja would love to see the end of Saddam Hussein but many are sceptical about American motives, pointing out that Washington was backing him at the time and tried to blame nearby Iran for the chemical attack on Halabja. | | | More than 300,000 people in the province which includes Halabja have signed a petition calling on the Americans and their allies to protect the Kurds against possible retaliation by the Baghdad regime. |
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http://www.puk.org/web/htm/news/knwsline/nws/16mar03.html
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| | Allegations about the responsibility for the Halabja massacre |
| | The source for most of these "exposes" of Halabja was a report entitled ‘Iraqi power and US security in the Middle East’ by Stephen Pelletiere (trained in politics, also claims Iran was behind the 1991 intifada in Southern Iraq), ret. | | | This is coupled with a claim that since Halabja was only recently captured by the Iranian-backed Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, there was probably an Iranian mix-up and the Iranians ended up bombing their own side. | | | If the Johnson et al argument is to be believed, Iranians were bombing their own elite units and key supporters for 48 hours, even though news reports were already circulating about the defeat of Iraqi troops on the 15th. |
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http://middleeastreference.org.uk/halabja.html
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| | U.S. Statement on Twelfth Anniversary of the Halabja Massacre, 3/16 |
| | The attack on Halabja, which was a crime against humanity, is emblematic of a long history of criminal conduct by Saddam Hussein's regime. | | | "The attack on Halabja, which was a crime against humanity, is emblematic of a long history of criminal conduct by Saddam Hussein's regime," Rubin said. | | | We are working towards the day when those ultimately responsible for the decision to order the poison gas bombardment of Halabja can be brought to justice before an international tribunal, in a free and democratic Iraq, or wherever they may be found. |
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http://www.usis.it/file2000_03/alia/a0031711.htm
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| | Did Saddam Hussein Gas His Own People? |
| | The former CIA official revealed that immediately after the battle the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency investigated and produced a classified report that said it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds. | | | Two days later, Reuters reported, Iran was alleging that 5,000 Kurds were killed by chemical bombs dropped on Halabja by the Iraqi Air Force. | | | Yet the Star also reported, in a Jan. 31 Opinion page column, that there's reason to believe the story about Saddam "gassing his own people" at Halabja may not even be true. |
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1779.htm
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| | Suspect held over Halabja |
| | In a bid to strengthen the prosecution’s case, a group of Halabja victims are now trying to record the names of all the people who died in the attack. | | | Halabja residents have been pressing for Van Anraat’s arrest since the US-led invasion of Iraq last year. | | | It is not the first time an attempt has been made to bring charges against Van Anraat for his alleged involvement in the Halabja attacks. |
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| | Search: Halabja - FOX News |
| | Halabja has become a leitmotif for Saddam Hussein's... | | | HALABJA, Iraq Clutching pictures of relatives they lost, survivors of Saddam Hussein's (search) 1988 chemical... | | | Photo said to have been taken in the aftermath of the attack. |
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http://search.foxnews.com/_1_2CLLTI804E64GW3__info.foxnws/search/web/Halabja
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| | Powell Commemorates Halabja Massacre, Hails Iraq's Future, March 16, 2004 |
| | What happened in Halabja was but a particularly gruesome case of the crimes of Saddam Hussein against the Iraqi people. | | | The people of Halabja have built a memorial to the victims of Saddam Hussein's evil, a moving testament to those who died. | | | On this day of remembrance, the American people send their deepest condolences to the people of Halabja, and to all Iraqis who suffered under Saddam Hussein's repression. |
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http://www.usembassy.it/file2004_03/alia/a4031605.htm
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| | Kurdo's World |
| | Halabja is not an Iraqi village like many media outlets claim. | | | The people of Halabja are not Saddam's own people. | | | But did the people of Halabja know about Powell's role in the blockage of sanctions on Saddam in 1988 ? |
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http://kurdo.blogspot.com/2005/03/halabja-silence-was-approval-every.html
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| | A Family From Mosul: What happened in Kurdish Halabja |
| | It concluded that Iran, not Iraq, was the culprit in Halabja. | | | After 15 years of support to the allegations of HRW, the CIA finally admitted in its report published in October 2003 that only mustard gas and a nerve agent was used by Iraq. | | | Having control of the village and its grisly dead, Iran blamed the gas deaths on the Iraqis, and the allegations of Iraqi genocide took root via a credulous international press and, a little later, cynical promotion of the allegations for political purposes by the US state department and Senate. |
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http://mosulfamily.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-happened-in-kurdish-halabja.html
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| | But the fleeing survivors of Halabja were not detained and taken to the camps, because the Iraqi regime did not consider Halabja to be a part of Anfal. | | | A Kurdish student of English at Mosul University recalled his shock and disbelief at the news; he and his fellow Kurds were convinced that Iraqi government forces had carried out the attack, but dared not protest for fear of arrest. | | | While Iran played up its own participation, PUK sources interviewed by Middle East Watch claimed that the seizure of Halabja was a joint peshmerga operation, which the Iranians only joined in large numbers after the March 16 chemical attack. |
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http://hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/ANFAL3.htm
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| | Whatever Happened To The Iraqi Kurds? (Human Rights Watch Report, March 11, 1991) |
| | Iraq was blamed for the Halabja attack, even though it was subsequently brought out that Iran, too, had used chemicals in this operation, and it seemed likely that it was the Iranian bombardment that actually killed the Kurds. | | | The war between Iran and Iraq was in its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas on the Kurdish city of Halabja, then held by Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas allied with Tehran. | | | Despite the international outcry over this one infamous event, little was heard in the United States about Saddam Hussein's brutal treatment of his own people until his invasion of Kuwait last August 2. |
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http://www.hrw.org/reports/1991/IRAQ913.htm
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| | Remembering Halabja MetaFilter |
| | But accusing him of gassing his own people at Halabja as an act of genocide is not correct, because as far as the information we have goes, all of the cases where gas was used involved battles. | | | The fact that thousands of Kurds were gassed at Halabja in 1988 is undisputed. | | | Even if you discounted Pelletiere's CIA report as politically motivated, it was still possible to believe in 1988 that Halabja was merely an isolated incident in a long, ugly war. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/24345
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| | Hundreds protest as Kurds remember Halabja gas attack : SF Bay Area Indymedia |
| | Even if the riot was the work of local Muslim fundamentalist groups, it is not good news that even some of the people in Halabja are not "grateful" for being liberated by the US from Hussein, and even blame the US, apparently for collusion with the Baath regime in the gas attacks. | | | Adnan Mufti, the Speaker of the Kurdish Parliament and a PUK leader, told The Independent in Arbil yesterday that part of the problem was that before 2003 Halabja was partly under the control of Islamic parties and had received little aid. | | | They assaulted the monument to the victims of Saddam's 1988 gas attack, an attack they said that the local government always used to excuse its ineptitude. |
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http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1808179.php
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| | Judge in Saddam Case Meets Kurds on Halabja Attack |
| | Saddam and his aides are also accused of carrying out the Anfal campaign against the Kurds between 1986 and 1989 in which over 100,000 people are said to have been killed and many villages destroyed. | | | But prosecutors hope it will be easier to secure a conviction in a smaller case against Saddam, who is under physical U.S. military custody on the edge of Baghdad. | | | Judge Raid Juhi, who has questioned Saddam several times, was accompanied by a delegation from the Special Tribunal trying Saddam. |
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http://www.aina.org/news/20050829113547.htm
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| | Halabja Watches Hussein's Trial and Waits for Its Day in Court |
| | With the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and seven others over killings in the town of Dujail once again stalled, survivors of the Halabja chemical bombings -- one of the darkest examples of persecution of Iraqi's ethnic Kurds under Hussein -- are grasping for their own sense of justice. | | | In Hussein's trial, the first since he was captured by U.S. forces two years ago, he and seven others face charges stemming from the execution of 148 men from Dujail following an attempt on the Iraqi leader's life there in 1982. | | | Anwar Hassam, 48, a government employee at the Department of Electricity, said that in the days leading to the chemical attacks, people in Halabja could see Iraqi troops congregating on the surrounding hillsides. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/24/AR2005122400847.html?nav=rss_world
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| | Halabja Conference Report |
| | The Halabja catastrophe caused a very traumatic convulsion among the Kurds of neighbouring countries and the diaspora. | | | Finally, Halabja has simply placed Kurdistan on the political map of the World. | | | Similar strong condemnations were made by the British, German and US governments as well. |
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http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/KURDICA/1998/APR/halabja.htm
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| | FLASHBACK: What do Fallujah and Halabja have in Common? :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch |
| | The Halabja atrocity is cleverly used to divide the Arab-Kurdish community in Iraq. | | | There was not a single credible evidence to prove that Iraqi troops were in Halabja that day, and that Iraq was responsible for the chemical attacks on the town. | | | Prior to US War against Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration and Tony Blair saw Halabja as a useful propaganda tool to demonise the regime of Saddam Hussein and to garner support for their violations of international law. |
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http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m17599&date=08-nov-2005_19:32_ECT
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| | Wanniski.com |
| | What surprised the Iraqi people after gassing the Kurds in Halabja was that the Iraqi regime was not prepared at all to defend itself against the allegations that they were behind these gassings at a time when they were able to do so. | | | The doctor, Mohammed Obeidi, is not a fan of Saddam, but is not happy with the thought that his people could be falsely accused of genocide, killing their own citizens for some evil purpose. | | | The Army War College did conduct an inquiry soon thereafter and in April 1990 concluded that both Iran and Iraq had used gas in their warring exchanges, but that the horrible deaths at Halabja were almost certainly the result of gas in the Iranian inventory, gas not available to the Iraqis. |
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| | Avocare:  Primer On Halabja: |
| | As I've talked with people about Halabja, it's become clear that while the popular press has fostered a general appreciation that the Hussein regime has used chemical weapons on its own people, few appreciate the scope or the consequences of the campaign. | | | Human Rights Watch offers a report on the Anfal Campaign, of which Halabja was a part, here. | | | The web offers a large volume of material on Halabja, but here some links I recommend: |
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http://www.avocare.net/archives/000921.html
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| | JURIST - Paper Chase: Saddam judge investigating Halabja poison gas attack |
| | The investigating judge from the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] visited Halabja in order to "inspect and collect information regarding the use of weapons of mass destruction against the city," according to a statement released the regional Kurdistan cabinet. | | | In July, the tribunal filed its first criminal charge [JURIST report] against Hussein in connection with the 1982 killing of some 150 Shiites in the village of Dujail in retribution for an assassination attempt. | | | The Dujail charge is seen as a relatively minor case amongst the allegations against Hussein, but prosecutors have indicated that they expect a fairly easy conviction on that charge. |
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http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/08/saddam-judge-investigating-halabja.php
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| | Intensifying activities for Women in Halabja and Hauraman area |
| | Even if Halabja has become the symbol for Baathist Terror against the population of Iraq and mentioned in a lot of speeches about the nature of Saddam Husseins terrorist Regime, the city itself was long neglected. | | | Women had especially suffered during the annihilation campaign of the Iraqi Government, because thousands of men were killed or deported, leaving a lot of female lead households. | | | Granted by USAID/ OTI -WADI opened a Women Center in Halabja in March 2004. |
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http://www.wadinet.de/projekte/newiraq/women/intensifying.htm
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| | Halabja Denial Redux ByTimothy Noah |
| | Halabja Denial has found its way onto the Web site of Al Jazeera, the Arabic television news network, via an op-ed by one Mohammed al-Obaidi, spokesman for Al-Kifah al-Shabi in Iraq. | | | As I demonstrated three years ago ("Jude Wanniski's Genocide Denial"), it is well-documented by various journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraqi warplanes dropped mustard gas and nerve agents on Halabja and other Kurdish areas, killing thousands of people. | | | The Al Jazeera op-ed's most outrageous claim is that the Central Intelligence Agency recently concluded that "the Iranians perpetrated that attack as a media war tactic." It did no such thing, and there has never been any evidence to support this claim. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2111888
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| | Was it Iran rather than Iraq that gassed the Kurds? : SF Indymedia |
| | The Halabja massacre was one of the pretexts put forward by the US Gov't for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. | | | The Portugal News has received a full transcript of a report by a former CIA senior political analyst that states that Iran was responsible for the mass murder of 5,000 Kurds by chemicals at the Iraqi township of Halabja in 1988. | | | Some political commentators, including Matthew Norman of the UK Guardian newspaper, are saying that if the report had been made public before the build up to the present conflict in Iraq, Portugal and Spain might well have had second thoughts about supporting the US and British invasion. |
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| | Chemical massacre of the people of Halabja by the Iraqi regime |
| | Halabja and its surrounding villages such as Khormal and Dojeyleh have for long witnessed the struggles of the Kurds against the Iraqi regime. | | | The Iraqi regime's crimes in chemically bombing the Halabja town were too grave for any humanbeing to overbook. | | | Chemical massacre of the people of Halabja by the Iraqi regime March 1988 Prepared by Alex Atroushi |
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| | Halabja 1998 Conference |
| | Background information on Anfal and Halabja; the consequences on the political development in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan | | | Panel 2: Background information on Anfal and Halabja; the consequences on the political development in Iraq and Kurdistan-Iraq | | | Anfal-operation and gas-attack against Halabja: Report of eye-witnesses and victims |
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http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/KURDICA/1998/MAR/conf2.html
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| | Islam Online- News Section |
| | CAIRO, April 16, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – The dreams cherished by the citizens of the northern city of Halabja of a prosperous life in post-Saddam Iraq continue to be dashed by the US occupation authorities who shifted billions of dollars from reconstruction to security, a leading American newspaper reported on Saturday, April 16. | | | Today, the US has canceled the much-needed clean water project it had planned for the city as part of a vast effort to rebuild Iraq after the 2003 invasion, The New York Times said. | | | But when it comes to working in Halabja, nobody does it,” said Ghreeb. |
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| | The Jawa Report: Dutch Supplier for Chemical Ali Indicted for Role in Halabja Massacre |
| | Frans van Anraat, 62, is charged with supplying thousands of tons of agents for poison gas that Saddam's military used in the 1980-1988 war against Iran and against its own Kurdish population, including an attack on the town of Halabja in 1988. | | | Prosecutor Fred Teeven told a pre-trial hearing at the high-security court in Rotterdam that Van Anraat continued to supply chemicals after the Halabja attack, which killed an estimated 5,000 people 17 years ago this week. | | | A Dutch businessman accused of complicity in war crimes and genocide for selling chemicals to Iraq knew Saddam Hussein would use them for poison gas attacks, prosecutors said on Friday. |
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| | Kurdistan Regional Government Home |
| | Of all the atrocities committed against the Kurds during the Anfal, Halabja has come to symbolize the worst of the repression of the Iraqi Kurds. | | | This page is dedicated to the people of Halabja who on March 16th, 1988 suffered the worst chemical attacks committed by Iraqi regime. | | | Professor Gosden discusses the medical and health consequences of the use of Weapon of Mass Destruction by the Iraqi regime against the civilian population of Iraqi Kurdistan in Halabja and 200 other locations during the genocidal Anfal campaign directly ordered by Saddam Hussein. |
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http://old.krg.org/reference/halabja/index.asp
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| | AP Worldstream: Kurdish town of Halabja remembers Saddam's chemical attack@ HighBeam Research |
| | Dateline: HALABJA, Iraq The people of northern Iraq paused Sunday to remember a day 15 years ago that gave the mountain city of Halabja a painful place in history. | | | Kurdish town of Halabja remembers Saddam's chemical attack | | | AP Worldstream: Kurdish town of Halabja remembers Saddam's chemical attack@ HighBeam Research |
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| | Unrest in Halabja |
| | HALABJA, Iraqi Kurdistan — On Thursday of last week, a minute of silence was observed all across Northern Iraq to commemorate the gassing of 5,000 Kurds by Saddam Hussein's government in 1988. | | | Hama-Saeed said that he planned to write an editorial about what had happened, but that he was debating whether to put his name to it, as journalists covering Thursday's events had been beaten and detained by Kurdish security forces. | | | But in Halabja, where the attack occurred—and where much of the damage is still in evidence today—demonstrators angry with the Kurdish government attempted to block the entry of officials into a ceremony commemorating the attack. |
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2006/03/unrest_halabja.html
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| | CNN.com - Kurdish town of Halabja remembers Saddam's chemical attack - Mar. 16, 2003 |
| | For the Kurds, the nerve gas and mustard gas attacks on Halabja and other Kurdish villages stand as testaments to their suffering at the hands of Saddam. | | | Kurdish town of Halabja remembers Saddam's chemical attack | | | Halabja survivor Tahir Kahyat, who was 24 at the time, said he lost both parents, three brothers and three sisters in the attack. |
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| | BBC News MIDDLE EAST Iraqi Kurds recall chemical attack |
| | US State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher said: "Saddam Hussein's regime must never be permitted to rebuild its weapons of mass destruction programmes". | | | "I lost 120 of my relatives, who were in Halabja for a wedding" said a woman to Kurdistan TV. | | | The attack on Halabja took place during the Iran-Iraq war when Iraq enjoyed the support of the west against Iran. |
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| | Cloud Over Halabja Begins to Dissipate |
| | About 5,000 people perished in an attack that stunned the world and revealed the ruthlessness of Iraq's president, Saddam Hussein. | | | You cannot rebuild the spirit of a place with bricks." | | | Qadr was the only member of his family to survive the gassing of Halabja by the Iraqi military on March 16, 1988. |
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| | Lawyers Say No Evidence Tying Dutchman to Halabja |
| | THE HAGUE (Reuters) -- Lawyers for a Dutch businessman charged with selling chemicals to Iraq used to carry out poison gas attacks said on Friday there was no evidence to link him with the strikes that killed thousands. | | | Lawyers Say No Evidence Tying Dutchman to Halabja | | | The Halabja attack on March 16, 1988, killed an estimated 5,000 people. |
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http://www.aina.org/news/2005129115247.htm
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| | Kurt Nimmo: Colin Powell, Exploiting the Dead of Halabja |
| | After all, millions of Americans think Saddam is Osama, Saddam is responsible for the horrific events of 9/11, and the US found tons of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. | | | But what Powell didn't bother to mention is the fact the US State Department "instructed its diplomats to say that Iran was partly to blame," according Joost R. Hiltermann of Human Rights Watch, which has extensively investigated the Halabja incident. | | | Photo ops with disentombed corpses aside, Powell also didn't bother to mention that people connected to the US government at the time of the Halabja massacre believe Iran, not Iraq, committed the atrocity. |
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| | Disinformation on Halabja |
| | The Iraqis had used mustard gas against them. | | | Despite our clarification on Radio-Courtoisie (broadcast by Commander Guillaume and our Newsletter of the 15 October 2002), Le Monde did it again, attributing 5,000 deaths in March 1988 to gases spread by the Iraqis! | | | This misinformation came from the diplomat Peter Galbraith, who had been invited by the Iranians to visit Halabja, scene of the crime. |
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| | Halabja |
| | Though there were other recorded incidents where the Ba’thy regime had used chemical weapons against the Iranian troops, Kurdish villages in the north and the Arabs of the Marshes in the south, but Halabja still the most tragic and horrible of all other examples. | | | For long time the innocent victims slaughtered in Halabja will remind us of the cruelty and barbarity of the most horrible example of dictatorship established by Saddam and his criminals. | | | This was later confirmed by the post-mortem analysis performed by the Iranian physicians on the bodies of the victims. |
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| | Saddam's Chemical Weapons Campaign: Halabja, March 16, 1988 |
| | External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views or privacy policies contained therein. | | | The worst of these attacks devastated the city of Halabja on March 16, 1988. | | | Halabja helped Saddam Hussein gauge the ability of his chemical agents to kill, maim, and terrorize population centers. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/18714.htm
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| | He Has Gassed His Own People |
| | But as Power notes, it was just one of some forty chemical assaults staged by Iraq against the Kurdish people. | | | Halabja was the "most notorious and the deadliest single gas attack against the Kurds," killing 5,000 civilians. | | | Indeed, as Samantha Power makes clear in an account in her new book, A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, the United States refused even to condemn the killing of civilians. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Mass grave found in northern Iraq |
| | Saddam Hussein, whose regime was toppled in April 2003, is facing trial in an Iraqi court for alleged crimes against humanity committed against Kurds, Shia Muslims, and opposition activists over three decades. | | | The then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's forces launched a chemical gas attack in Halabja in March 1988, killing about 5,000 Kurds in a single day. | | | Dozens of bodies have been discovered in a mass grave near the town of Halabja in northern Iraq. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3643108.stm
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| | CBC News: the fifth estate - The Forgotten People - Hajabja Attack |
| | Again and again helicopters flew over Kurdish settlements throughout northern Iraq releasing clouds of lethal gases and leaving bodies piled in the streets. | | | The Chemical Attack at Halabja - The U.S. Iraq Alliance | | | Images of bodies piled in the streets of Halabja were broadcast around the world. |
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| | ...Or Does It Explode?: Halabja Anniversary |
| | Today marks 17 years since Saddam Hussein unleashed a poison gas attack against Kurdish villages in Halabja. | | | Three wars (Iran-Iraq, Gulf War I, Gulf War II), a strident debate over weapons of mass destruction, the arrest of Saddam Hussein, and seventeen years later, Halabja almost seems like ancient history. | | | Halabja was bombarded with a concoction of chemical weapons which included mustard gas, and the nerve gases sarin, tabun and VX. |
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http://www.ordoesitexplode.com/me/2005/03/halabja_anniver.html
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| | Islamic Union back in Halabja |
| | Observers regard this a failure for the PUK’s policies and believe that the leadership of the PUK is under question. | | | Once these gangs are back, the people of sharazur and Hewraman would be oppressed again. | | | On 15 October 2001, the first group of IUMK militants under the command of Mulla Sidiq, Mulla Ali Abdulaziz’s brother went back to Halabja. |
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| | Halabja Post-Graduate Medical Institute |
| | An additional 100,000 Iranian soldiers also survived Iraqi chemical attacks during the Iran-Iraq War, and it is also believed that Saddam used chemical weapons against rebellious Shi'ites and marsh Arabs in southern Iraq following the Gulf War.. | | | Participants agreed to establish the Halabja Post-Graduate Medical Institute for treatment and research of survivors of chemical and possibly biological and radiological weapons attacks in Iraqi Kurdistan. | | | Attacked by Iraqi forces from April 1987 to August 1988, it has been estimated that between 150,00 to 250,000 were exposed to Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. |
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http://www.kurd.org/Zagros/HMI1.html
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| | Pacifica.org |
| | They wanted to remove Saddam, so they started a war against him." | | | In Halabja yesterday for anniversary commemorations, US Administrator Paul Bremer said the bombing served as proof that last year's US-led invasion of Iraq was justified. | | | He urged "those who doubt the rationale" for George Bush's war "to come to Halabja and see the tombstones of 5,000 men, women, and children". |
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http://www.pacifica.org/programs/reportfromiraq/PacInIraq-20040317.html
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