http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Halabja Posts tagged with 'Halabja' at MetaFilter. Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:43:47 -0800 Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:43:47 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/24345/Remembering%2DHalabja <a href="http://www.kdp.pp.se/chemical.html">15 years ago today Saddam Hussein launched an unprecedented chemical weapons attack on 20 Kurdish villages.</a> (warning: disturbing images). I think this speaks for itself. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24345 Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:43:47 -0800 anniversary atrocities chemical Halabja Iraq Kurdish Kurds Saddam SaddamHussein weapons clevershark http://www.metafilter.com/23220/A%2DWar%2DCrime%2Dor%2Dan%2DAct%2Dof%2DWar <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PELL.html?pagewanted=print&amp;position=top">A War Crime or an Act of War?</a> <br><br>But the truth is, all we know for certain is that Kurds were bombarded with poison gas that day at Halabja. We cannot say with any certainty that Iraqi chemical weapons killed the Kurds. This is not the only distortion in the Halabja story. ..<br><br> This much about the gassing at Halabja we undoubtedly know: it came about in the course of a battle between Iraqis and Iranians. Iraq used chemical weapons to try to kill Iranians who had seized the town, which is in northern Iraq not far from the Iranian border. The Kurdish civilians who died had the misfortune to be caught up in that exchange. But they were not Iraq's main target. <br><br> And the story gets murkier: immediately after the battle the United States Defense Intelligence Agency investigated and produced a classified report, which it circulated within the intelligence community on a need-to-know basis. That study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds, not Iraqi gas. (NYT) tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23220 Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:43:32 -0800 ChemicalWeapons Halabja Iran Iraq Kurds UnitedStates War WarCrime y2karl