Could anybody shed any light on this or is it ballax Halabja chemical attack Part of Al-Anfal Campaign and Operation Zafar 7 (during the Iran-Iraq War) Date March 16, 1988 Location 35°11′N 45°59′E Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan Result Kurdish and Iranian forces abandon Halabja, subsequent capture and demolition of the town by Iraqi forces Belligerents Iraq Ba'athist Iraq Iran Iraqi Kurdistan Commanders and leaders Ali Hassan al-Majid Casualties and losses 3,200–5,000 killed; 7,000–10,000 injured The Halabja chemical attack (Kurdish: Kîmyabarana Helebce کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە), also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday,[1] was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Southern Kurdistan. The attack was part of the Al-Anfal campaign in northern Iraq, as well as part of the Iraqi attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the fall of the town to Iranian army and Kurdish guerrillas. The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians.[1][2] Thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack.[3] The incident, which has been officially defined as an act of genocide against the Kurdish people in Iraq,[4] was and still remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.[5] The Halabja attack has been recognized as a separate event from the Anfal Genocide that was also conducted against the Kurdish people by the Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein.[6] The Iraqi High Criminal Court recognized the Halabja massacre as an act of genocide on March 1, 2010, a decision welcomed by the Kurdistan Regional Government. The attack was also condemned as a crime against humanity by the Parliament of Canada Or this The fifth president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein,[1] was internationally condemned for his use of chemical weapons during the 1980s against Iranian and Kurdish civilians during and after the Iran–Iraq War. In the 1980s, Saddam pursued an extensive biological weapons program and a nuclear weapons program, though no nuclear bomb was built. After the Persian Gulf War, the United Nations located and destroyed large quantities of Iraqi chemical weapons and related equipment and materials throughout the early 1990s, with varying degrees of Iraqi cooperation and obstruction.[2] In response to diminishing Iraqi cooperation with UNSCOM, the United States called for withdrawal of all UN and IAEA inspectors in 1998, resulting in Operation Desert Fox. The United States and the UK asserted that Saddam Hussein still possessed large hidden stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in 2003, and that he was clandestinely procuring and producing more. Inspections by the UN to resolve the status of unresolved disarmament questions restarted between November 2002 and March 2003,[3] under UN Security Council Resolution 1441, which demanded Saddam give "immediate, unconditional and active cooperation" with UN and IAEA inspections, shortly before his country was attacked.[4] During the lead-up to war in 2003, United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix said that Iraq made significant progress toward resolving open issues of disarmament noting the "proactive" but not always "immediate" cooperation as called for by UN Security Council Resolution 1441. He concluded that it would take "but months" to resolve the key remaining disarmament tasks.[5] The United States asserted this was a breach of Resolution 1441, but failed to convince the UN Security Council to pass a new resolution authorizing the use of force due to lack of evidence.[6][7][8] Despite being unable to get a new resolution authorizing force and citing section 3 of the Joint Resolution passed by the U.S. Congress,[9] President George W. Bush asserted peaceful measures could not disarm Iraq of the weapons he alleged it to have and launched a second Gulf War. Later U.S.-led inspections found out that Iraq had earlier ceased active WMD production and stockpiling. The report also found that Iraq had worked covertly to maintain the intellectual and physical capacity to produce WMDs and intended to restart production once sanctions were lifted Maybe it's not really relevant
Maybe it isn't relevant. This is a football forum. However i can't help you with the History as per these incidents I'm not aware of them, and i guess many more aren't either. History wasn't my strong topic.
The Kurds were definitely gassed using a type of blood agent but the responsibility for the attack is subject to speculation. From memory the Iraq government blamed Iran.
Short answer: no he didn't have any. The gassing of Kurds was in the early 80's when Iran was fighting Iraq. A war in which that the US backed both sides at various points. Bush and Blair reluctantly gave UN Weapons Inspectors time to go in to Iraq and look for WMD. They found nothing. This didn't matter to Bush and Blair because that was never their reason for invading anyway. Nothing was ever foun. Google: David Kelly and Scott Ritter.
So what did he gas the Kurds with. The power of farting. Coarse he had WMDS he also had the tech to restart his production after sanctions were lifted, and with this massacre on his cv he was not to be trusted he was just a bit smart at the time. Imo
If you're going to ask a question, at least do me the courtesy of accurately representing my reply. Your opinion only counts as your opinion, not as a matter of an historically proven fact reported by people who were on the ground at the time. So, say what you like, it doesn't alter the facts.
But as you have said Saddam massacred thousands of Kurds in a chemical attack( WMDS) that is a proven fact . So he had WMDS and had no worries in using them. Whether he had them or not when the inspectorate went in before the second gulf war he had the capability and his disregard for the lives of his own people and the fact that he invaded Kuwait and attacked Israel with scuds proves that he was a little unstable all this is fact. Now then I ll ask you again did he once use WMDS to terrible effect . Do you think he was a good chap
I dont know why you are asking me to answer a question that I've already answered in my first response to you. But anyway, once more for luck....
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