CHAMCHAMAL, Iraq, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The recently recovered bodies of more than 100 children who were killed during Saddam Hussein's reign were buried Tuesday in the Kurdish town of Chamchamal. The children had been detained in an internment camp in 1988 during a wave of arrests and attacks on the Kurds known as the "Anfal" campaign.

THE notorious "Chemical Ali", one of Saddam's Hussein's most feared lieutenants, is to hang. He was condemned to death on genocide charges for killing 100,000 people during the 1988 Anfal campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq. Many were gassed - hence Ali Hassan al-Majid's infamous nickname.

BAGHDAD _ After months of delay, the Iraqi presidency council on Friday signed off on the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of the late dictator Saddam Hussein better known as "Chemical Ali" for ordering poison gas attacks that killed thousands of Kurds in the 1980s.

Iraqi Kurds have claimed oil rights in Kirkuk, which is in northern Iraq but outside the Kurdish semi-autonomous area.

Iraq's leaders grappled Thursday over the death sentences for three former Saddam Hussein regime heavyweights - including the notorious enforcer known as "Chemical Ali" - amid warnings the hangings could enflame sectarian violence and derail efforts at reconciliation.