The great freedom fighter of the anti-imperialist resistance, a man who tirelessly fought for the Iraqi people in their struggle against the American occupation and Israeli imperialism was executed by the elected Iraqi government.

The BBC try to downplay the significance by claiming that his victims number only 5000:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8479115.stm

According to a German news magazine, Chemical Ali was finally executed for the murder of 180,000 Kurdish civilians using poison gas and conventional methods in the Anfal campaign in the late 1980s.

http://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/chemie-ali_aid_138878.html

Chemical Ali fought for the Iraqi people in the bravest way he knew: by murdering them.

Meanwhile, an inquiry derives at the conclusion that the invasion of Iraq had no legal basic in international law.

The invasion of Iraq had no "legal basis in international law", the senior government lawyer Sir Michael Wood has told the Chilcot inquiry.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/7078079/Chilcot-inquiry-Iraq-invasion-had-no-legal-basis-in-international-law.html

The article does not mention Kurds. I assume Sir Michael Wood is not one of the 1.5 million Kurds that fled their homes during the same campaign. If he were, he would probably not be quite as happy about the fact that international law remains on Saddam's side.

I do believe him when he says that international law really doesn't care about such things (unless the refugees are Arabs who are trying to kill Jews in which case international law obviously warrants inspections, wars, terror attacks, denouncements, invasions and basically anything one might come up with).

Either way, the Iraqis have today violated international law when they executed an accomplished peace activist whose murder of 180,000 cannot be regarded as even remotely as evil as Israel's obvious planned murder of 300 Gazan civilians in January 2009. It is clear that there shouldn't have been any sanctions against Iraq and there was obviously no rational reason for removing such a man from power.

But let's forget the sarcasm for a while. I have pictures of Kurdish poison gas victims. The same pictures are available elsewhere on the Web but I took pictures of the original photographs myself. The original photographs can be seen in a gallery in a basement in Sulimainiya, a town located a few miles from Halapja, where the attack happened.

I never published my pictures because I still cannot stop crying when I look at them.

They are of parents dying while trying to escape the town, of children lying dead in the streets with no wounds but an empty look, of an entire town where all buildings are still standing and all the streets are filled with bodies.

According to what I was told the (Iranian) journalist who took the pictures went mad shortly after seeing the results of poison gas war.

Saddam Hussein has done everything Israel is constantly accused of and more. And yet the same people who call those who want to invade and destroy Israel "freedom fighters" or a "resistance" are convinced that invading Iraq and removing Saddam from power was a crime against humanity.

I don't know any more how many articles, reports, and studies I have read that supposedly prove that the invasion was an immoral violation of international law but don't even mention Saddam's victims.

P.S.: I assume it goes without saying that the execution of Chemical Ali, who had "nothing to do with terrorism" was accompanied by several terror attacks directed against Iraqi civilians.