Saadi al Shuwaili was shaken from his bed by the rumbling of U.S. bombers over his neighborhood, the Tuwasah district of Basra. About an hour later 5:30 a.m. on April 5 he heard six deafening blasts, two of which came from a house 500 m from his own. British intelligence had a solid tip that Ali Hassan al-Majid known as Chemical Ali for his role in gassing the Kurds in 1988, and now the general commanding the Iraqi military in the south was meeting at the house with Ba'ath party officials. The bombs incinerated the building, and...
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