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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Iraq hangs 'Chemical Ali' -- Saddam's cousin and henchman AFP - Tuesday, January 26 Send IM Story Print Saddam Hussein's notorious henchman "Chemical Ali", seen here in 2007, has been executed, Iraq's government said, eight days after he was sentenced to death for the 1998 gassing of thousands of Kurds. BAGHDAD (AFP) - – Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin and henchman "Chemical Ali" was executed on Monday, Iraq's government said, eight days after he was sentenced to death for the 1998 gassing of thousands of Kurds. Ali Hassan al-Majid was better known by his macabre nickname and as the King of Spades in the pack of cards of most wanted Iraqis issued by the US military in 2003, and will forever be associated with mass killings. He was "executed by hanging until death," government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said. "The execution happened without any violations, shouting or cries of joy," in sharp contrast to Saddam's death on the gallows, he added. The news, which was welcomed by Kurdish victims, came as three massive car bombs targeting hotels rocked central Baghdad, killing at least 36 people and wounding 71 in an apparently co-ordinated but as yet unclaimed attack. Majid was sentenced to death on January 17 for ordering the gassing of Kurds in the northeastern town of Halabja which killed an estimated 5,000 people and was one of the worst crimes of Saddam's iron-fisted regime. Saddam's house of cards comes tumbling down "I was happy to see the news of the execution on television," said Kamal Abdelkadir, 24, who lost his parents, five sisters and a brother in the atrocity and who continues to require medical treatment for his injuries. Fadhel Rifat, 27, who now lives in Sulaimaniyah, the eponymous Kurdish province in which Halabja is situated, was also just a young boy at the time of the attack. "My father and many relatives died because of Chemical Ali," he said. "I am happy that he is dead." Three-quarters of the victims at Halabja were women and children, in what is thought to be the deadliest ever gas attack carried out against civilians. The conviction for the gas attack that came as the Iran-Iraq war drew to a close was the fourth time that Majid had received a death sentence. Handing down the ruling, Judge Abud Mustapha al-Hamani branded Majid's offences as "deliberate murder, a crime against humanity" when the verdict was delivered amid muffled applause in the courtroom. "Al hamdulillah, Al hamdulillah (praise be to God)," said a stone-faced Majid, in a hearing broadcast on television. Majid's execution had previously been held up by legal wrangling. The first execution was due to have been carried out by October 2007 but delayed so as not to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Saddam, his close cousin, was himself hanged in December 2006 for the killing of 148 Shiite villagers after an attempt on his life in 1982. In contrast with Majid's hanging, however, footage of that execution posted on the Internet showed shouts of applause and barracking of the dictator as he died. Majid earned his moniker for ordering poisonous gas attacks in a brutal scorched-earth campaign of bombings and mass deportations that killed an estimated 182,000 Kurds in the 1980s. 'Chemical Ali' - Saddam's notorious henchman He had already been sentenced to hang for genocide over the Kurdish offensives when in December 2008 he received a second death sentence for war crimes committed during the ill-fated 1991 Shiite uprising in southern Iraq. Last March, the Iraqi High Tribunal handed down a third death sentence over the 1999 murders of dozens of Shiites in the Sadr City district of Baghdad and in the central shrine city of Najaf. Majid was arrested in August 2003. He orchestrated the Halabja attack when in March 1988, Iraqi jets swooped over the small town and for five hours sprayed it with a deadly cocktail of mustard gas and the nerve agents Tabun, Sarin and VX. Considered Saddam's right-hand man and bearing a strong resemblance to the former dictator, he was a member of the decision-making Revolutionary Command Council and regularly called upon to wipe out rebellion. In March 1987, the ruling Baath party put him in charge of state agencies in the Kurdish area, including the police, army and militias. As Iraq's eight-year war with Iran came to an end the next year, fighters from the rebel Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, with backing from Tehran, took over the farming community of Halabja, near the border. As Saddam's enforcer, he ordered the gas attack to crush the uprising. Majid said he took action against the Kurds, who had sided with Iraq's enemy in the war, for the sake of Iraqi security and has refused to express remorse. 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