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  • Man Who Sold Chemical Components to Saddam to Face Genocide Charges

    03/28/2005 10:35:02 AM PST · by FlyLow · 3 replies · 366+ views
    CNS News ^ | 3-28-05 | Eva Cahen
    A businessman who has been dubbed the "Dutch Chemical Ali" is being held in jail in the Netherlands, accused of selling ingredients for lethal non-conventional weapons to ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Frans van Anraat faces the charge of genocide in a Dutch court for supplying chemical weapons to Saddam, who then used them in his war against Iran during the 1980s and in poison gas attacks on Iraqi Kurds. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Rotterdam said this was the first time a Dutch citizen was being prosecuted for genocide. "If he is convicted, the maximum sentence could...