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General Sultan Hashem, a former Iraqi defence minister, along with Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali", are awaiting execution for their roles in the Anfal military campaign that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurds in 1988.
However, Hashem was assured by senior US military officials that his life would be spared.
Al Jazeera's James Bays reports.