Dutchman in Iraq genocide trial

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4360137.stm
By Geraldine Coughlan
BBC News, Rotterdam

Victims of the 1988 Halabja chemical gas attack
Bush and Blair cited Halabja as an example of Saddam's brutality
The trial of a Dutch businessman accused of selling chemicals to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to make poison gas is due to open in Rotterdam.

Frans van Anraat is accused of war crimes and genocide, the first time a Dutchman has faced that charge.

Mr van Anraat is accused of selling chemicals from the US and Japan to Iraq to make nerve gases and mustard gas.

The gases are said to have been used in the 1988 attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, where more than 5,000 died.