12-29-2006, 08:32 PM
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Mandy
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Originally Posted by Tempest
I'm curious as to how many innocents died/were tortured via Hussein compared to how many innocents have died/been tortured since the US invaded... Anyone have a number for comparison?
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Saddam Hussein
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On March 16, 1988, the Kurdish town of Halabja was attacked with a mix of mustard gas and nerve agents, killing 5,000 civilians, and maiming, disfiguring, or seriously debilitating 10,000 more. (see Halabja poison gas attack) [16]. The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces. The United States now maintains that Saddam ordered the attack to terrorize the Kurdish population in northern Iraq ([17]), but Saddam's regime claimed at the time that Iran was responsible for the attack[13] and the US supported the claim until the early 1990s.
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More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein |
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