Posted AT 4:27 AM EDT on 17/03/08
The painful lesson of betrayal
HALABJA, IRAQ — Rafiq Laiq learned two difficult lessons as he and his family fled the chemical-gas attack Saddam Hussein's army launched on this town 20 years ago.The first was that tabun gas smells like apples, and can kill almost instantly. The second was that big, powerful friends like the United States have a tendency to help you only when it suits their interests.
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