Today in History: Sunday, August 21
Today is Sunday, August 21, the 233rd day of 2011. There are 132 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:
1673 - Britain's Prince Rupert is defeated off Texel, ending British efforts to land troops in Holland and freeing Dutch coast from blockade.
1680 - Pueblo India ns drive out the Spanish and take possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1791 - Slaves rise, beginning the Haitian Revolution
1808 - British forces defeat French at Vimiero, Portugal .
1831 - Former slave Nat Turner leads a violent insurrection in Virginia, United States, and is later executed.
1862 - British sailor Billy Barker strikes gold in western Canada 's Cariboo mountains, digging up $600,000-worth. His wife squanders the fortune and Barker dies penniless.
1886 - Pro- Russia n officers in Sofia, Bulgaria, kidnap the ruler, Prince Alexander, and hand him over to the Russia ns.
1917 - German forces attack Russia ns on the Latvian front in World War I.
1939 - The Soviet Union and Germany sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, a 10-year nonaggression treaty, with a secret addendum, to partition Poland. This treaty proved to be the fuse that ignited World War II.
1945 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman ends the Lend-Lease Program that gave US $50 billion in aid to the Allies in World War II.
1951 - Construction of the first nuclear submarine is ordered. The same power used in the atomic bombs during World War II would be harnessed as an alternate energy source.
1959 - Hawaii becomes 50th state of United States.
1963 - Buddhists are arrested and martial law is imposed in South Vietnam.
1968 - Soviet forces occupying Czechoslovakia seize liberal Communist leader Alexander Dubcek.
1975 - United States lifts 12-year ban on exports to Cuba by foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies, but embargo on direct trade between Cuba and United States remains in effect.
Who Is Chemical Ali - News
Bonus relative intel: Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid was directly in charge of the chemical attacks against the Kurds, earning him the epithet, "Chemical Ali." Iraqi troops invaded the country of Kuwait. The invasion was induced by oil
It will not happen then it will be over in two weeks, Russia give you five months and the use of Chemical Ali. UN who needs I am the man who order the bombing of the UN in Gaza and told them before hand. I am going to hit Lebanon and destroy Hizbullah
2007 - Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali" and 14 others go on trial on charges of crimes against humanity in the brutal suppression of a Shiite uprising that killed tens of thousands after the 1991 Gulf War.
2007: Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali" and 14 others go on trial on charges of crimes against humanity in the brutal suppression of a Shiite uprising that killed tens of thousands after the 1991 Gulf War. 2009: The only man convicted of
The Major could probably be likened to Chemical Ali under the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. He punished Generals who were far senior to him and hid his boss at will. He reportedly ran other unofficial errands for his boss, the Head of State.
World Scene – 01/19/10
BAGHDAD | Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin “Chemical Ali” was convicted Sunday and sentenced to hang for ordering the most infamous of his crimes, the 1988 attacks against the Kurdish town of Halabja that killed more than 5,000 people in clouds of poisonous gas.
This was the fourth death sentence against Ali Hassan al-Majid for crimes against humanity. His previous sentences have not been carried out in part because Halabja survivors wanted to have their case against him heard. Politics also plays a role, with a three-member presidential council representing Iraq’s leading factions of Shi’ites, Sunni Arabs and Kurds unable to agree to sign off on an earlier execution order.
Another senior figure in Saddam’s regime, former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, suffered a severe stroke over the weekend and cannot speak, his son said Sunday from neighboring Jordan. Aziz was for years the chief diplomat of Saddam’s regime. He was convicted and sentenced to prison for his involvement in the forced displacement of Kurds in northern Iraq and the deaths of Baghdad merchants in the 1990s.
AFGHANISTAN - Holbrooke: Video shows militant links
KABUL | A video of a Pakistani Taliban leader with the bomber who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan could indicate cross-border links between Afghan, Pakistani and al Qaeda militants, the U.S. regional envoy said on Sunday.
Special Representative Richard Holbrooke told Reuters news agency in an interview in Kabul that “shadowy but unmistakable” links between groups exposed by the video helped explain why the United States and its allies were fighting in Afghanistan.
The video released this month showed the Jordanian suicide bomber posing with Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, before carrying out the Dec. 30 attack which killed seven CIA employees, the deadliest strike on the agency in decades.
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Chemical Ali Execution
Chemical Ali was a first cousin of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein. Al-Majid had been sentenced to four death penalties for various crimes ...
Chemical Ali Hanging
After several delays, "Chemical Ali" was executed on Monday, January 25, 2010. Following his hanging, many expected there to be a video of Chemical ...
Ali Hassan al-Majid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ali Hassan al-Majid is thought to have been born in 1941 in al-Awja ... Anyone willing to come back is welcome, and those who do not return will be attacked ...
BBC News - 'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq after Halabja ruling
Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin known as "Chemical Ali", is hanged for crimes against humanity in Iraq.
Ali Hassan al Majid - Global Security.org
Profile of "Chemical Ali", Saddam Hussein's cousin and former governor of the south of Iraq.