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Ten years ago, the systematic gassing of the Kurdish population of northern Iraq had far less impact on America. Only six months after the slaughter at Halabja, the White House lent Saddam Hussein another billion dollars. ... In point of fact, Iraq had already used chemical weapons against the Kurds on 15 April 1987.
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In a recent New York Times op-ed, Stephen Pelletiere argued that the March, 1988, gassing of Kurds during the waning months of the Iran-Iraq war may have been perpetrated by Iran, not Iraq.
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hnn.us/articles/1242.html
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Indeed, subsequently State Department officials indicated that both sides--Iraq and Iran--were responsible perhaps for the gassing of civilian Kurds.
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The following are excerpts from the book ''A Modern History of the Kurds'' by David McDowall (reprinted by permission of St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y.). The excerpts cover the 1988 gassing and purge of Iraqi Kurds, who were aiding Iranian forces pushing into Iraq.
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www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886282/posts
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The piece of hard evidence most frequently brought up concerns the gassing of Iraqi Kurds at the town of Halabja in March 1988, ... And if it has other examples of Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds, it must show that they were not pro-Iranian Kurdish guerrillas who died fighting alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
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The Iraq tribunal announced new criminal charges against Saddam Hussein and six others Tuesday, accusing them of genocide and crimes against humanity stemming from a 1980s crackdown against Kurds that included the gassing of thousands of civilians.
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sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/04/04/international/i042426D25.DTL
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Former dictator Saddam Hussein will stand trial for a range of charges from gassing thousands of Kurds to executing political and religious leaders and draining ancient marshlands, according to a list obtained Monday from the special tribunal. ... Saddam faces trial for gassing Kurds, executing leader...
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www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-06-06-iraq_x.htm
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Jude Wanniski's Genocide DenialWherein the supply-side guru disputes, against all evidence, Saddam's gassing of the Kurds. ... All of these symptoms are consistent with a poison gas attack." The March 24 New Yorker carries a lengthy account by Jeffrey Goldberg of Iraq's systematic gassing of the Kurdish population,
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Up to 5,000 died at Halabja, northern Iraq ... UN experts confirmed in 1986 that Iraq had contravened the Geneva Convention by using chemical weapons against Iran.; ... In 1988 Iraq turned its chemical weapons on Iraqi Kurds in the north of the country.
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/iraq_events/html/chemical_warfare.stm
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