Saddam death leaves Kurd gas tragedy untested in court

Well, now that Saddam Hussein has been killed, he won't be brought to trial for his alleged gassing of Kurds in the Iraqi village of Halabjah. This is convenient for the USA, no?

That country which is notorious for killing so many prisoners usually leaves them languishing in Death Row hell for years, but not with this bloke. The US made sure he was dead as quick as possible. Dead men tell no tales.

We invaded Iraq because of WMDs and because Saddam Hussein was such a crazy mutha that he gassed his own people (the Kurds in Halabja), so he might gas us, do you recall?

Author Dr Stephen C Pelletiere, recently professor at the US Army War College, was the CIA's senior political analyst during the Iran-Iraq War. It was he and his colleagues who investigated the gassing.

Of the massacre of Kurds in Halabja, Pelletier said: "Halabja was a battle between the Iraqis and the Iranians and the Kurds were ... collateral damage. Halabja was a tragedy of war, it was not a war crime". Pelletier went on to say that Iraq did not have cyanide gas, Iran did ...

Read on at March 16 in the Book of Days.

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