A court in The Hague extended the remand detention on Wednesday of a Dutchman accused of complicity to genocide on charges he exported raw materials to Iraq in the 1980s to be used in the production of chemical weapons....
At the request of US authorities, Van A. was first arrested in 1989 in Italy. After two months on remand, he was released pending extradition, but fled to Iraq, where he stayed until the US-led invasion in March 2003....
He is accused of exporting thousands of tonnes of raw materials to Iraq between 1984 and 1988. The Iraqi regime used chemical weapons in the 1980-88 war against Iran and against the Kurds in northern Iraq.
The Dutch prosecutor suspects Van A. was involved in 36 shipments to Baghdad. He faces maximum sentences of life imprisonment and 20 years respectively for complicity to commit genocide and war crimes.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Will We Extradite Rumsfeld?
Arnold P. California
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