He is suspected of being involved in the poison gas attack in Halabja in 1988 which killed 5,000 and leading brutal purges on more than 100,000 others. Last week, British soldiers captured his ...

Coalition aircraft have struck the home of an Iraqi general known as "Chemical Ali" for ordering a poison gas ... the 1988 gas bomb attack in 1988 on the village of Halabja, where an estimated ...