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...case of Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat, accused of complicity in genocide for selling banned chemicals to Iraq, opened in Rotterdam. Van Anraat is alleged to have sold mustard gas and nerve gas to Saddam Hussein. The agents were used in the 1988 attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, in which 5,000 people died. New Allegations UKRAINE The Prosecutor General's Office said that 18 Soviet-made nuclear-capable cruise missiles were "smuggled to third countries" - reportedly China and Iran - in 2001. The new director of the SBU intelligence service, Olexander Turchinov, earlier told TIME that the defendants...
...crimes and involvement in genocide for his alleged role in supplying thousands of tons of raw materials for mustard gas to Saddam Hussein's regime between 1984 and 1988. Prosecutors said the gas was used in an attack by Saddam's forces on the Iraqi town of Halabja in 1988, in which 5,000 Kurds died. Double Victory GHANA President John Kufuor was elected to a second term, earning 53% of the national vote, against 44% for main rival John Atta Mills. Kufuor's New Patriotic Party also secured a majority in Parliament in parallel legislative elections, though Mills complained...
...disarming, he would have had every incentive to stave off potential U.N. retaliation and demonstrate fully his cooperation with its resolutions. In fact, he had much to hide as evidenced by his prior willingness to use weapons of mass destruction. In March 1988, Saddam attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons and cluster bombs, and in August, he dropped poison gas on the village of Birjinni. It does not take much to make the connection between the thousands of victims of his violence and his propensity and capability for future destruction...
...before. "It's not part of the Iraqi culture, military or political," says Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, a retired general of the Iraqi special forces. But Ansar al-Islam, which was driven from its base at the northeastern border with Iran during the war, used suicide attacks last spring near Halabja, and an Iraqi intelligence officer working with the CIA says, "Our feeling is that Ansar are the most likely ones, even if it was financed or supported by someone else...
...however, the battle for Halabja seemed inconclusive. President Bush last week referred to the destruction of Ansar's base as one of the war's important early achievements. But it may be a limited one. In Halabja, U.S. commando Mark says, "A lot of the senior cadre fled a long time ago, leaving a fanatical hard core to stay for the last stand. They had little intention of surviving." The Americans blasting away at the holdouts recognize this and lament opportunities lost. "This is my second time in northern Iraq," says a special-forces soldier. "I should be in Tampa...