Surf Arab States

Arab States Weekly Review 23 Jan – 29 Jan 2010

Baghdad was hit by big bombs targeting three of its best-known hotels. 41 casualties were reported.

Ali Hassan Al-Majid, a.k.a. “Chemical Ali” was executed by hanging after he was found guilty by an Iraqi special tribunal of ordering poison-gas attacks against Kurds in 1988. Al-Majid was a couson and confidant of Saddam Hussain.