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Saddam Hussein — Part 1
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to believe that the water they had previously been given had been
drugged. Once they were all in the pits, the soldiers started
shooting them. [ Tlookea around and that saw the woman
who had gone into labor while on the truck riddled with bullets
in her head and stomach. Stated that her brains were
coming out of her head, and that her stomach was torn apart by
the bullets and he could see the unborn baby.
[was shot in his left shoulder. At this
point, he ran toward the soldier who shot him rabbed him by the
legs, and pleaded with him in Kurdish. CO could tell by
the look in the soldier's eyes that he did not want to be doing
what he had been ordered to do. The other soldier became angr
and yelled in Arabic. The angry soldier then threw
back into the pit and began shooting again hittin
his lower back on his right side. At that point,
played dead.
The shooting finally stopped an
together and talked in Arabic.
beginning to cover up the holes. was in the pi -
furthest from the bulldozers and decided to escape. pie
saw a young girl who had not been hit by a single bullet and he
told her they needed to escape. She | a ee she was
scared of the soldiers and that she would Ho eave.
crawled out of the pit and laid on the pile
of dirt next to it. He made a space for himself so that his
outline could not be seen by the Toyota Landcruisers that were
patrolling the area_with their headlights looking for survivors
the soldiers gathered
saw bulldozers
and shooting them. moved from one dirt pile to the
next until he eventually passed out. By the time he awoke,
everyone had been buried. walked for several hours and
encountered a group of dogs which began barking. The dogs
surrounded him and barked _until their owner came outside. The
man spoke Arabic and s unable to understand him;
however, the man took in and gave him food and water.
es with this man for a night or two, but was then
O-town in order to get medical attention for his wounds.
ee taken in by an Iraqi family and stayed with them
Or near two years before being reunited with an uncle.
[—_Jinterview, March 8, 2005].
The following seized documents and statements detail
some of the Iraqi Government's actions during the Anfal campaign.
According to AZIZ and AL-DURI, only HUSSEIN could authorize the
use of chemical weapons. As previously demonstrated, HUSSEIN
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