Iraq’s presidency council has approved the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin and senior official under executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a senior Iraqi official says.

Al-Majid was nicknamed “Chemical Ali” for overseeing the gassing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during the Operation Anfal campaign in 1988.

The official said no date has been fixed for the execution.

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