Thanks grizzfan for that post.
As I often say, "Jihad -- another day."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1296698/posts
"Dutchman suspected of aiding Saddam in war crimes is arrested"
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1403662004 ^
Posted on 12/07/2004 9:34:36 PM PST by politicalvanguard.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A MAN suspected of helping former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein commit war crimes and genocide by supplying him with materials for chemical weapons, has been arrested by the Netherlands authorities.
Prosecutors said the 62-year-old man, identified as Frans van Anraat by Dutch television, was arrested at his Amsterdam home on Monday as he prepared to leave the Netherlands.
"According to the United Nations, the Dutchman is one of the most important middlemen in Iraq’s acquisition of chemical material," Dutch prosecutors said in a statement. "The man is suspected of supplying thousands of tonnes of raw materials for chemical weapons between 1984 and 1988."
The chemicals could be used to produce mustard and nerve gasses. Iraq used the weapons in the 1980-1988 war against Iran and against the Kurdish population in northern Iraq, including in the notorious attack on the town of Halabja in 1988, in which an estimated 5,000 people were killed, prosecutors said."