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The execution of Chemical Ali

.” Anfal Campaign “I will kill them all with chemical weapons! Who is going to say anything ... supplied the Iraqi regime with chemicals which were later used to manufacture the chemical weapons used ... , following Monday’s execution of 68-year-old ‘Chemical Ali’. Former defense minister, Ali Hassan Al ...

Van Anraat and the chemical solution

interview that his deliveries of chemical substances to Iraq was just something he had done on the side. He ... , as an important tradesman of chemical materials. But after 2000 the US seemed to have lost all interest ... in the export of forbidden chemicals to Saddam Hussein. The trial of Frans Van Anraat could well put ...

Van Anraat, sole chemical agent

) he supplied were converted to chemical weapons, which Iraq used to attack Iran and its own Kurdish ... before a federal court in The Hague for his sales of chemicals to the Saddam Hussein regime in the 1980's ... -Mahid - aka Chemical Ali - and Hussein's brother Hussein Kamal al-Mahid are named in the Dutch indictments ...

“Al-Qaeda practises beating body scanners”

weapons confiscated at Schiphol "A Dutch military "A Dutch ... 've used for over 30 years. Explosive sniffers detect the presence of tell-tale chemicals. In Iraq a few ... been handling explosives. The spray reacted to nitrates and other chemicals associated with explosives ...

Seven years for former Iraqi minister

-Majid – nicknamed ‘Chemical Ali’ for his use of chemical weapons against Kurdish people – a nephew of, and important ... -Majid, Baghdad, Chemical Ali, deportation of Kurdish people, Diyala, Iraq, Kirkuk, Middle East, Saddam Hussein ...

Kurdish poisonous gas victims sue businessman

Chemical_weapon2HalabjaWikiCommonsSayeedJanbozorgi(died 2002).jpg Victims ... Van Anraat. The victims are now taking civil action. Photo: Halabja chemical weapon attack 1988 ...

Dutch Supreme Court upholds Van Anraat judgement

weapons programme of Saddam Hussein’s regime. With the chemicals supplied by Van Anraat, the regime ... the guilty verdict against the Dutch businessman involved in selling chemical products to Iraq designated ... [...] the chemicals he was delivering were being used for mustard gas”, and “knew that the poison gas would be used ...

Five found guilty of Australian terror plot

. The men were found guilty of stockpiling weapons and chemicals to make bombs, in retaliation at Australia ...

Balkenende and Iraq, Davids and Goliath

/or chemical weapons; battlefield munitions which could not possibly reach either Turkey or Cyprus. None ... to international security posed by Sadam Hussein’s Iraq and its alleged weapons of mass destruction. Both the prime ... . The commission seriously questioned the Blair government’s statement that Iraqi missiles carrying chemical and ...

Cynical Frans

with substances that were allegedly used to produce chemical weapons. Van Anraat is charged with selling the chemical products to Iraq over a four-year period, from 19 April 1984 to 25 August 1988. The gas attack ... , or that there was a not to be neglegted chance that they would produce chemical weapons from the material he supplied. In the light ...

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