Saddam Hussein’s cousin told a court trying him for genocide on Sunday he had ordered Kurdish villages cleared in the 1988 “Anfal” campaign but insisted he was right to do so and had nothing to apologise for. Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as “Chemical Ali”, is on trial with five other former senior Baath party officials for their roles in the 1988 Anfal (Spoils of War) military campaign. Full Story