Survivors of poison gas attacks testify in Saddam trial
Thursday, August 24, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Kurds on Wednesday told of entire families killed in chemical weapons attacks against their villages in the 1980s, saying survivors plunged their faces into milk to end the pain from the blinding gas or fled into the hills on mules as military helicopters fired on them.
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