{"id":16967,"date":"2010-01-25T19:08:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T00:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16967"},"modified":"2010-01-25T19:10:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T00:10:56","slug":"rot-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16967","title":{"rendered":"Rot In Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi government announced today the death of\u00a0Ali Hassan Al-Majid, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100125\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_iraq_chemical_ali\">the notorious cousin of Saddam Huessin who became known as &#8220;Chemical Ali&#8221; because of his role in using chemcial against the Kurds<\/a>.\u00a0 He was hanged shortly after recieving his FOURTH death sentence (and unfortunately they only hanged him once).\u00a0 Ali Hassan also\u00a0was the military governor of Kuwait following its occupation by Iraq and\u00a0helped to crush a Shiite rebellion in southern Iraq after the Gulf War. He was part of Saddam&#8217;s inner-circle for\u00a0many and was able to remain consisently in Saddam&#8217;s favor, unlike many of his other\u00a0relatives, including his\u00a0sadistic son Uday.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think anybody will be missing him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I want to kiss the hangman&#8217;s rope,&#8221; said Kamil Mahmoud, a 40-year-old teacher who lost eight family members in the March 16, 1988, attack in Iraq&#8217;s Kurdish region.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi government announced today the death of\u00a0Ali Hassan Al-Majid, the notorious cousin of Saddam Huessin &hellip; <a title=\"Rot In Hell\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16967\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rot In Hell<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}