Powell visits Kurd mass graves in Iraq

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

HALABJA, Iraq -- Standing near rows of white grave markers, Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday honored 5,000 Iraqi Kurds who died in a chemical weapons attack and pledged such brutality was gone along with Saddam Hussein.

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