"Al-Majid will be executed in Baghdad rather than in Kurdistan so that it does not look like an act of vengeance," the Iraqi Al Sabah daily quoted government spokesperson Ali Al-Dabbagh as saying.
Earlier media reports speculated that "Chemical Ali" could be executed either in Erbil (the capital of the so called independent Kurdistan) or Halabja.
The official said the date for the execution would be determined within a month after a decision of an Iraqi appellate court.
Al-Majid and another two top officials of the former Iraqi regime -- former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai and former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi Army, Hussein Rashid Mohammed - were sentenced June 24 to death by hanging in the Anfal case, so called after a government campaign against Kurds in northern Iraq that resulted in the killing of 182,000 people in the 1980s.
Saddam Hussein was hanged December 30, 2006, after being convicted for the 1982 killings of 148 Shiites in Dujail, north of Baghdad.
