Man who allegedly supplied Saddam with lethal chemicals to face Dutch trial
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Prosecutors in the Netherlands say they'll charge a Dutchman with genocide and war crimes for supplying Saddam Hussein with lethal chemicals. The chemicals were allegedly used in a 1988 attack that killed five-thousand Iraqi Kurds.
The Dutch national prosecutor's office says the suspect "sent thousands of tons" of raw materials for chemical weapons Saddam's way over a four-year span.
Prosecutors say the 62-year-old man has been a suspect since 1989. But he was able to flee to Iraq. He stayed there until the U-S led invasion last year, and eventually returned to the Netherlands, where he was arrested yesterday.
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