If I recall correctly, Saddam's title was President of Iraq. Not the President of the Sunni Triangle.
As far as the article goes, I believe that the author believes that the Iranians were responsible for the gassing of Kurds. Most IMO do no agree with this belief...
meria.idc.ac.il
"This article, based on official Iraqi documents, examines the Iraqi regime’s policy vis-à-vis its Kurdish population during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). The long, conflicted Iraqi-Kurdish relationship led to the government’s decision to launch a major campaign against the Kurds at the war’s end. Harsh methods were employed in an operation codenamed Termination of Traitors, personally ordered by President Saddam Hussein...
...The campaign’s aim was also the conscious and deliberate murder of large numbers of Kurds regardless of their gender, age, or civilian status. Even chemical weapons were to be used against them."
Sixty Minutes-
kurdistan.org
ED BRADLEY:" The man that Saddam Hussein appointed to carry out this genocide was his cousin, General Ali Hassan al-Majeed. When the Kurds rose in revolt after the Gulf War, they seized hundreds of documents and tapes from Iraqi government offices in the region. In an audiotape recording of a meeting of Iraqi leaders in 1987, which has been authenticated by Iraqi dissidents, al-Majeed revealed he had no qualms about using chemical weapons against the Kurds."
General ALI HASSAN AL-MAJEED: "I will attack them, attack them with chemicals and kill them all. As for the international community, screw the international community and anyone who takes any notice of them." |
