British claim to have found body of Chemical Ali

BRITISH military officers say they have found the body of “Chemical Ali,” Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s cousin and commander of the southern region.

The US military, however, said yesterday it could not confirm that Ali Hassan al-Majid, the commander of Iraq’s southern front, had been killed in an air strike on his house.

In what would be a major blow to Saddam’s power structure, Sky News said British officers “have confirmed the death during a briefing earlier this morning ... that’s the news we are getting, that he is in fact dead”.