Posted on 03/18/2005 7:18:53 PM PST by familyop
Edited on 03/19/2005 7:51:52 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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| Iraqi Kurds protest outside the disctrict Court in Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
Frans van Anraat appeared Friday in a Rotterdam courtroom. The 62-year-old defendant is accused of exporting tons of chemicals that Iraq used to make weapons over a four-year period beginning in 1984.
Prosecutors say Saddam used the weapons in the 1988 attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja that killed 5,000 people. Some survivors of the attack attended Friday's hearing.
A prosecutor told the court Mr. van Anraat continued to sell Iraq chemicals even after the Halabja attack. But the defendant denies any wrongdoing.
Mr. van Anraat fled to Iraq in 1989. He returned to the Netherlands after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Another hearing is expected in June, and the trial in November.
A real sense of urgency here.
I wonder what Bill Clinton will be held accountable for, when the bombing raids on Beograd become the topic.
This is why I don't understand Liberals. We know Saddam had this stuff, we know he used it, we know who sold it too him. Now the Liberals keep asking me, "Where are the wmd's? And I reply, we can't find them, doesn't that worry you at all? That we know , somewhere they are out there. Then I get the "Bush lied" mantra and just walk away. Liberals, go figure it out PLEASE.
Jeff
Why the NERVE of some people!
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