15 years for Saddam’s chemicals supplier
Frans van Anraat, 63, was not in the courtroom as the judges issued the verdict in the first court case anywhere concerning the killing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds with chemical weapons.
The court first determined that the slaughter of the Kurds constituted genocide a finding that may reverberate in later charges against Saddam by an Iraqi court in Baghdad and that the chemicals supplied by the businessman were essential to the making of the weapons.
