‘Ali Hasan al-Majid Executed

‘Ali Hasan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's cousin and right-hand-man for repression, has been executed in Iraq. He had been given four separate death sentences, though they only executed him once. I am not normally a strong defender of execution, but it is difficult to feel any sympathy for the man behind Halabja and so many other atrocities. The man the press liked to call "Chemical ‘Ali" is gone. He will not be missed.