HALABJA, IRAQ: Kurdish Peshmerga, now members of the Iraqi Army form a guard of honor at the memorial site of the 1988 victims of a gassing in the Kurdish town of Halabja, 300 kms (190 miles) northeast of Baghdad 16 March 2005. On March 16, 1988, the forces of then President Saddam Hussein dropped chemical gas on Halabja, killing up to 5,000 people, as part of a campaign to crush a Kurdish rebellion. AFP PHOTO/AHMED AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMED AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)
