A Dutch businessman accused of complicity in genocide by selling chemicals to Iraq in the 1980s knew that Saddam Hussein might use them as weapons, prosecutors said at his first public hearing today.

Prosecutors today said they will charge a 62-year-old Dutchman as an accomplice to genocide and other war crimes for supplying Saddam Hussein’s regime with lethal chemicals that were used in the 1988 chemical attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja.