Right there - Chemical Ali was Saddam's cousin, linked to the Halabja gas massacre. Comical Ali was a much less unsavoury character, just doing his job as a press spokesman, which was to lie through his teeth when his bosses required. Like Kimmitt, in that respect. ................ How's this for struggling on the hook?: "We still don't believe that there was a wedding or a wedding party going on when we hit in the early hours of the morning," a senior military official said, adding that daylight scenes on film might be of a wedding held there the day before, reports Reuters.