Posted on 05/09/2007 2:14:36 PM PDT by knighthawk
A Dutch appeals court has sentenced businessman Frans van Anraat to 17 years in jail but did not find him guilty of conspiracy to commit genocide. Van Anraat supplied Saddam Hussein's regime with chemicals used for making poison gas. The Dutch businessman has always maintained that he did not know that the Iraqi regime planned to make chemical weapons. Saddam Hussein used poison gas against Iran during the 1980 to 1988 war and also against Iraq's own Kurdish population.
In 2005, van Anraat was sentenced to 15 years in jail for conspiracy to commit war crimes. He was not convicted of genocide. A spokesperson for the appeals court said the sentence was increased because van Anraat committed his crimes several times out of pure greed.
Ping
So this guy went to jail for selling the poison that Saddam used to make baby milk.
wow.
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