BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court sentenced a former aide to Saddam Hussein to death by hanging on Sunday for having ordered a poison gas attack on a Kurdish village in 1988.
It was the fourth death sentence for the aide, Ali Hassan al-Majid who is known here as “Chemical Ali.” It was a nickname he won after the 1988 gas attack, which killed 5,000 Kurds in the northern village of Halabja, in the semiautonomous Kurdistan region, in 1988.
“Thanks to God,” an unrepentant Mr. Majid said when the sentence was read.
Two other former government officials, Defense Minister Sultan Hashem and Sabir al-Douri, military intelligence chief, were also sentenced to 15 years in prison each for their involvement in the same attack. A fourth defendant, Abdel Mutlaq al-Jbouri, a former regional intelligence chief, received a 10-year sentence.
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