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‘Chemical Ali’ ill

BAGHDAD: Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali,” has been taken to a U.S. military hospital after suffering a heart attack while in custody awaiting execution, officials said. A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad confirmed that he was in hospital. The officials who said he was admitted on Sunday spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss his condition. al-Majid was among three of Saddam’s lieutenants sentenced to death by an Iraqi court last June after they were found guilty of using poisonous gas against Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. Their executions have been delayed because of a disagreement between Iraq’s Shia-led government and its Presidency Council about whether the death penalty should be carried out. In the meantime they remain in U.S. custody. —AP

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