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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells a Pentagon news briefing that the "reign of terror" of "Chemical Ali" (Ali Hassan Al Majid, Pres. Saddam Hussein's cousin and one of most notorious executioners) "came to an end" when he was killed in an air strike on his house in Basra on April 5
The notorious Iraqi general dubbed Chemical Ali was killed in a strike organised by the SAS, according to reports.
"SAS troops then marked the target using laser designation devices and called the air and artillery attacks which killed him." British Army officers earlier said they could confirm the Iraqi - real name Ali Hassan al-Majid - had been killed.
Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Iraqi official known as "Chemical Ali", has been executed by hanging, a government spokesman has announced.
Report Suppressed: Iran Gassed Kurds, Not Iraq
This claim of Iraq gassing its own citizens at Halabjah is suspect. First, both Iran and Iraq used chemical weapons against each other during their war. Second, at the termination of the Iran-Iraq war, professors Stephen Pelletiere and Leif Rosenberger, and Lt Colonel Douglas Johnson of the US Army War College (USAWC) undertook a study of the use of chemical weapons by Iran and Iraq in order to better understand battlefield chemical warfare. They concluded that it was Iran and not Iraq that killed the Kurds. www.informationclearinghouse.info...
Originally posted by Bcs8484
reply to post by JJay55
Yes but the story is that Top US and British Commanders confirmed his death in 2003. I think to possibly gain the public's favor by supposedly killing this man who was responsible for killing so many innocent people. It does make sense as a reasonable play that they would make, to say he was dead even when they knew he was not.
Originally posted by JJay55
Originally posted by Bcs8484
reply to post by JJay55
Yes but the story is that Top US and British Commanders confirmed his death in 2003. I think to possibly gain the public's favor by supposedly killing this man who was responsible for killing so many innocent people. It does make sense as a reasonable play that they would make, to say he was dead even when they knew he was not.
But this is common. Like Osama bin Laden is dead but we haven't announced it. So it's psychological warfare for the battlefield. Since we have embedded reporters stories are exposed.
Who knows, maybe the big guys were playing a game of poker with those Gulf War playing cards of the 52 most wanted Iraqis and someone needed a full house.
Also AQ is notorious for faking the death of their commanders. Taqiyya, and then the opponent thinks they have a victory and AQ allows them to believe it and it's a silly game but quite common. Then AQ gets plastic surgery and reappear. The Lockerbie bomber was reported dead about 6 times. Now he's happy and living in Libya.
Originally posted by Bcs8484
reply to post by JJay55
Yes I agree alot of the warfare is psyops.
Originally posted by clay2 baraka
You just managed (almost convincingly) to tie Chemical Ali (an Iraqi Sunni) to Al Queda. There is good money to be made in the public relations world, and there will be a great need for your skills when it is time to justify an invasion of Iran. .
it's al Qaeda and yes, Saddams computers had the same 7 phase plan that AQ has.
Originally posted by Someone336
I can only assume you're either referring to A "The Project," uncovered in a raid on the home of Youssef Nada of the Al-Taqwa bank, or B) the 20 year plan discussed by Yassin Musharbash.
Why does this remind me of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"...concocted by the Czarist secret police, the Okhrana?
A handy-dandy testament of evil plans justifies all kinds of stuff, it seems.
In 1988, the Al Taqwa Bank is founded in Switzerland, and it quickly becomes one of the major funders for radical Islamic groups, including al-Qaeda (see 1988). The Al Taqwa Bank is closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and one of its key founders, Said Ramadan, is one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s top leaders, and also the son-in-law of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ramadan helped Saudi Arabia found the Muslim World League in 1962; the charity will go on to fund al-Qaeda and many other radical groups. But there is strong evidence that Ramadan also was a long-time CIA asset. [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 136] Declassified Swiss documents reveal that in the 1960s, the Swiss government considered him to be, “among other things, an intelligence agent of the British and the Americans.” The Wall Street Journal will report in 2005, “Historical evidence suggests Mr. Ramadan worked with the CIA.” For instance, he traveled on a Jordanian diplomatic passport given to him by the CIA, “his expenditures are financed by the American side,” and he worked closely with CIA supported propaganda fronts. [Mother Jones, 1/1/2006] The Egyptian government apparently also believed Ramadan worked with the US, and that he may have had a role in a plot against Egyptian President Abddul Nasser in the 1960s. Ramadan even met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Oval Office in 1953. [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 135-138] Ramadan will die in 1995 at the age of 69.