Photos of former government officials in captivity
22/5/2005 13:24
(Photo Source: Xinhua/CNN)
The Sun newspaper published two more pictures of former senior Iraqi
figures apparently in captivity. It identified a figure holding a walking
stick as he stoops in front of a plastic chair in one grainy image as "Chemical
Ali", Ali Hassan al-Majid, the former Saddam lieutenant blamed for chemical gas
attacks on Iraqi Kurds. The Sun said another picture showed Huda Salih Mehdi
Ammash, dubbed "Mrs Anthrax" by foreign newspapers as she is accused of helping
Saddam try to rebuild Iraq's biological warfare capacity in the 1990s. She is
shown walking in a courtyard. "The evil brute -- and his cruel henchmen --
deserve no one's sympathy for anything," declared the newspaper's defence editor
Tom Newton Dunn in an article accompanying the pictures.
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