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His troops razed hundreds of Kurdish villages, massacred thousands of Kurdish fighters and civilians, and forcibly relocated many more to southern Iraq.
According to Division Chief for Lower Manhattan Peter Hayden, "We had a very strong sense we would lose firefighters and that we were in deep trouble, but we had estimates of 25,000 to 50,000 civilians, and we had to try to rescue them."
Numerous officers responded in order to help injured civilians and to urge those who could walk to vacate the area immediately.
Civilians at or above the impact zone in the North Tower had the smallest hope of survival.
From March to September 1988, the Iraqi army seized every Kurd in a vast "prohibited area" and carted off nearly 100,000 civilians for execution; it also used chemical weapons against the Kurdish population.