[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 53 (Wednesday, April 2, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H2590]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           MEET CHEMICAL ALI

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, the record of evil compiled by Saddam Hussein 
and his sons Uday and Qusay is well known. Less well known is the 
record of his closest adviser. Meet Ali Hasan al-Majid al-Tikriti, 
better known as Chemical Ali. Chemical Ali is the enforcer of the 
regime. His presence signals Saddam's most vicious intent. While he was 
governor of the, quote, Kuwait Province in 1990, he implemented a 
program to ``Iraqify'' Kuwait through the arrest, torture and execution 
of Kuwaiti police, military officers and resistance members. In the 
years since, he has brutally suppressed uprisings by Iraqis in the 
north and in the south. In 1991 he appeared on Iraqi television, 
beating, kicking and executing Iraqi opposition prisoners.
  Ali earned the name ``Chemical Ali'' because of his tenure as 
director of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi Intelligence Service. On March 
16, 1988, he ordered the use of chemical weapons against the civilians 
of Halabja, resulting in the deaths of over 5,000 innocent men, women 
and children.
  Meet Lieutenant General Ali Hasan, a symbol of why the allies fight 
this war. Removing documented war criminals like this man from 
positions of power is the right thing to do both for the oppressed 
people of Iraq and for our global stability.

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