OTD in 1988, Saddam Hussein carried out the Halabja chemical attack, killing up to 5000 people on the day

The CIA aided Saddam's chemical attacks in the Iran-Iraq war, two-thirds of chemical attacks happened in the last 18 months of the war when CIA-Iraq cooperation peaked.

Photo: Donald Rumsfeld meets Saddam Hussein, he was acting as an envoy of US President Ronald Reagan at the time.

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