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The execution of Chemical Ali
supplied the Iraqi regime with chemicals which were later used to manufacture the chemical weapons used ... .” Anfal Campaign “I will kill them all with chemical weapons! Who is going to say anything ... , following Monday’s execution of 68-year-old ‘Chemical Ali’. Former defense minister, Ali Hassan Al ...
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 ...
Somali donors should stop arms supply
Somalia arms - EPA.jpg International donors should end weapons and other military supplies to Somalia's embattled government as lack of safeguards risks worsening the violence ... that war-wracked Somalia's government was receiving weapons while "issues of vetting ...
Dutch Supreme Court upholds Van Anraat judgement
, Van Anraat’s involvement in supplying chemicals to Iraq was an essential contribution to the chemical 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 ...
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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 ... Anraat. The Dutch businessman is serving a 16-and-a-half-year sentence for supplying the raw ...
Cynical Frans
, or that there was a not to be neglegted chance that they would produce chemical weapons from the material he supplied. In the light ... -old is charged with complicity to commit genocide and war crimes for supplying Saddam Hussein's regime with substances that were allegedly used to produce chemical weapons. Van Anraat is charged with selling ...
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 ...
Questions about FARC's Swedish weapons
for an explanation. Venezuela rejects all suggestions that it supplied weapons to the FARC. Relations between ... farcweapons.jpg Colombia says it has captured anti-tank weapons from the FARC rebel movement. They are Swedish-made weapons which were sold to Venezuela. The Swedish ...
Balkenende and Iraq, Davids and Goliath
/or chemical weapons; battlefield munitions which could not possibly reach either Turkey or Cyprus. None ... to the risk of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, even though ... to international security posed by Sadam Hussein’s Iraq and its alleged weapons of mass destruction. Both the prime ...
Van Anraat, a high-stakes second round
of chemicals that had both civil and military purposes, including Thiodiglycol (TDG), which was used to produce mustard gas, a chemical weapon tested during the 1988 Anfal campaign against Iraqi Kurds. The prosecution ... of military intelligence, praising van Anraat for his important role in the chemical weapons industry ...
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