"ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID in his role as head of the Ba'ath Northern Command...held a meeting with those pilots who would undertake the mission. After the meeting ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID returned to the area HQ of the 1st Corps...ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID ordered the pilots to launch a chemical strike on the area of Halabja."

"ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID arrived...He insulted...our religion (we were all Shi'a)...He called us 'ignorant Shi'a'. One by one these men were brought to him, blindfolded and tied up. He said to the first: "What have you done?" The man replied that he had done nothing. ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID told him that if that was the case he could go home. When the blindfolded man turned round, ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID shot him in the back. It seemed a big joke to him...One woman came to ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID looking for her husband who had been arrested. ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID shot her right in front of me as well."

"ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID...ordered some of his people to take me to the torture chamber...His exact words were "Hang him from the ceiling until he's dead"...After about three-quarters of an hour ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID...said "Attach more weight to his feet, 20 kilos or more". This was done and I started bleeding from the nose...ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID ordered me taken down...[He] kicked me in the face as hard as he could and cut my forehead which started bleeding...I remember vividly ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID was wearing black slip-on shoes...He threatened to bring my wife in and hang her from the ceiling..."