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Interesting. Apparently a number of Iraqis didn't know about the gassing of Halabja.
Nafeh Mohammed Saleh, 42, and his brother Adel, 40, were soldiers in the Iraqi army during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Adel was serving in Panjwin, in northern Iraq, close to Halabja.
"We heard there had been a chemical attack, but we didn't know where - in the north or the south or the central sector," Adel said.
Nafeh said he had seen a video of the dead that his Kurdish friends had shown him, with children and women lying dead in the streets.
"But I don't know if it was a genuine film," Nafeh said, fingering his worry beads. "People talked, but we didn't hear it from anyone who had seen it himself. We still have our doubts."
He added: "I heard they bombed Halabja because they wanted to get the Iranians out. I heard they had bombed them with crushed stones - not chemicals."
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