 THE HAGUE - A court jailed a Dutch businessman for 15 years on Friday after finding him guilty of complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals to Iraq used to carry out gas attacks, but acquitted him of genocide charges.
| Which Saddam never had, of course ... |
The court said Frans van Anraat, 63, supplied the raw materials knowing they would be used to make poison gas by Saddam Husseinâs Iraq in the 1980-1988 war with Iran and used against its own Kurdish population, including an attack on the town of Halabja in 1988.
The sentence was the maximum that could be imposed for the charge.
| He'll serve what .. five, six years .. out on parole, welfare payments afterwards? |
âHis deliveries facilitated the attacks and constitute a very serious war crime. He cannot counter with the argument that this would have happened even without his contribution,â the presiding judge told a packed court. âEven the maximum sentence is not enough to cover the seriousness of the acts,â he said.
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