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Iraqi Chemical Attacks
In 1988 the Reagan administration in the US decided not to punish Saddam Hussein for gassing Kurdish people in northern Iraq at Halabja.
Twenty-five years ago the Reagan administration in the US decided not to punish Saddam Hussein for gassing Kurdish people in northern Iraq. The US Senate had passed a bill calling for sanctions against Iraq - but it was never signed into law. Hear from Peter Galbraith, the man who drafted the legislation.
Photo: An Iraqi Kurdish woman mourning a victim of the chemical weapons attack on the town of Halabja. AFP/Getty Images.
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