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30 Facts About the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad

Trista December 25, 2018 13 min

The Halabja chemical attack in 1988. Kurdsat/dckurd.org.

15. He Used Chemical Weapons Against His Fellow Iraqis

Part of the terms of ending the Persian Gulf War included Iraq dismantling its chemical weapons program, which had been used to kill many Iraqi civilians. One of the most notorious was the Halabja chemical attack, in which mustard gas and unidentified nerve agents killed or injured as many as 15,000 people.

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15. He Used Chemical Weapons Against His Fellow Iraqis

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