An Iraqi court sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majeed -- an aide to Saddam Hussein widely known as "Chemical Ali" -- to death today, state television reported.

He was sentenced to be hanged for a 1988 gas attack in the Kurdish town of Halabja that killed an estimated 5,000 Kurds,

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