By NNN-KUNA
Baghdad : The US Army has indicated that it will hand over to the Iraqi government Ali Hassan Al-Majid, also widely known as “Chemical Ali”, convicted for spearheading massacres against Iraqi kurds with chemical agents.
The official spokesman of the Multi-National Force (MNF) told a news conference here Wednesday that the Iraqi government has not requested for his handover for execution, in line with a recent approval of the presidency of a court death sentence.
On March 1, Iraqi Vice-President Tareq Al-Hashimi said the Iraqi Presidency had unanimously approved the execution of Al-Majid. But it has decided to delay the hanging of other defendants, Sultan Hashim and Hussein Rashid, Al-Hahimi’s Office said in a release.
Al-Majid was condemned to death for genocide charges for killing 100,000 people during the 1988 Anfal campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq.