Saddam's cousin 'Chemical Ali' gets another death sentence

Baghdad: A special Iraqi court has handed down another death sentence for Saddam Hussein's cousin known as 'Chemical Ali', for his role in the 1991 suppression of a Shiite uprising.

"Chemical Ali' - whose real name is Ali Hassan Al Majid - is already under death sentence for the crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.

Former Baath party official Abdul Ghani Abdul Ghafur also received a death sentence on Tuesday at the end of the trial that began in August 2007.

Four defendants received life sentences, six face 15-year sentences and three were acquitted.

Former Defence Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad Al Tai also faces the gallows in the 1980s Kurdish crackdown but is among those who received a 15-year sentence Tuesday.