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Saddam's Ultimate Solution




A Chemical Attack
A Chemical Attack




Between 1987 and 1988, the Iraqi armed forces launched dozens of chemical attacks in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq. By far the most intense of these attacks occurred in a town called Halabja.


photo credit: Ali Fereiduni





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