A FAIRLY DETAILED ACCOUNT claiming that Chemical Ali (Ali Hassan al-Majid) was alive and well many days after the Pentagon declared him dead.

Officials at the Nursing Home Hospital said the emergency room, busy throughout the war, looked even more crowded around midnight on April 9, the day Baghdad fell.

"I was awakened at night and told that there was someone in the emergency room. I walked there and looked up and there was Ali Hassan al-Majid sitting on a stretcher next to two bodyguards," the hospital's former director, Abdel Aziz al-Bayaa, told Reuters.

"They (the bodyguards) both had shrapnel wounds. One was slightly wounded and the other had a serious injury."

Majid, who was accompanied by Iraq's then defence minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmed, discussed the war with Bayaa, who said as little as possible to avoid annoying him in any way.

"He said there was no problem in Baghdad and that he and his men were just visiting different areas of Baghdad. He joked with his bodyguards," said Bayaa.

"I asked him how the president was doing and he said 'the president is great'. But he looked like he was very upset and wanted to cry."

Interesting stuff...read it here.