Dutchman accused of selling Iraq chemicals
Frans van Anraat, 62, is charged with supplying thousands of tons of agents for poison gas that Saddam’s military used in the 1980-1988 war against Iran and against its own Kurdish population, including an attack on the town of Halabja in 1988.
Prosecutor Fred Teeven told a pre-trial hearing at the high-security court in Rotterdam that Van Anraat continued to supply chemicals after the Halabja attack, which killed an estimated 5,000 people 17 years ago this week.
