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|origin = Tikrit, Iraq
|origin = Tikrit, Iraq
|occupation = Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service<br>Minister of Defense<br>Minister of the Interior
|occupation = Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service<br>Minister of Defense<br>Minister of the Interior
|type of villain = Terrorist
|type of villain = Genocidal mass murderer
|goals = Establish control over the Kurdistan region (failed)
|goals = Establish control over the Kurdistan region (failed)
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>Mass murder<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Terrorism
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>Mass murder<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Terrorism
|hobby = Gassing Kurds}}'''Ali Hassan al-Majid''' (November 30, 1941 - January 25, 2010) was a Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister, Interior Minister, military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. He was also the governor of annexed Kuwait, during the Persian Gulf War.
|hobby = Establishing control<br>Killing}}'''Ali Hassan al-Majid''' (November 30, 1941 - January 25, 2010) was a Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister, Interior Minister, military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. He was also the governor of annexed Kuwait, during the Persian Gulf War.


A first cousin of the late Iraqi President [[Saddam Hussein]], Al-Majid became one of Saddam's closest military advisors and head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, Iraqi secret police known as the Mukhabarat. Following an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Saddam in 1983 in the town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, al-Majid directed the subsequent collective punishment operations in which scores of local men were killed, thousands more inhabitants were deported and the entire town was razed to the ground.
A first cousin of the late Iraqi President [[Saddam Hussein]], Al-Majid became one of Saddam's closest military advisors and head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, Iraqi secret police known as the Mukhabarat. Following an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Saddam in 1983 in the town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, al-Majid directed the subsequent collective punishment operations in which scores of local men were killed, thousands more inhabitants were deported and the entire town was razed to the ground.