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width="1" height="1" //divpAli Hassan al-Majid, the cousin of Saddam Hussein known as "Chemical
Ali", has received a second death sentence for the mass killing of Shia Muslims during an uprising
in southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf war./ppMajid had already been condemned to death by hanging
for his role in the killing of tens of thousands of Kurds, but has not yet been executed./ppHe
served as Iraq's intelligence chief and defence minister under Saddam. He was one of three former
officials sentenced to death in June after being convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes
against humanity for their part in the 1988 Anfal (Spoils) campaign, which killed 180,000 Kurdish
civilians and guerrillas./ppMajid was also behind the brutal suppression of the abortive southern
Shia uprising that followed the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991./ppAfter the US
invasion he was listed as the fifth most-wanted man in Iraq, shown as the king of spades in the
deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. He was captured in August 2003./ppAbdul-Ghani
Abdul-Ghafur, a former Ba'ath official, also received a death sentence at the end of the trial,
which began in August 2007./ppFour defendants received life sentences, six face 15-year sentences
and three were acquitted. Another former defence minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, who also
faces the death penalty for the Kurdish crackdown, was given a 15-year sentence in today's
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