Ghosts of Halabja, Iraq to Sue European WMD Suppliers…………
“Iraq plans to take legal action against the suppliers of chemicals used in a poison gas attack on the town of Halabja in Iraq's Kurdish north, which killed 5,000 people in 1988. The government on Wednesday also approved $6m to finance construction in the town ahead of the 20th anniversary of the attack on March 16. "The cabinet decided to take legal measures to sue the companies who provided the ex-regime with the chemical weapons used in Halabja," the statement issued by the government said. However, it did not elaborate on any specific companies that might be the subject of the legal challenge. In 2005, a court in the Netherlands sentenced a Dutch businessman to 15 years in prison - later raised to 17 years - for supplying the raw materials for poison gas to Saddam Hussein's government. The gas was used by his government in Halabja, and also in the 1980-1988 war with Iran…………..” Aljazeera
FYI: Arab regimes either banned/censored news of Halabja from their media at the time.
I expect that the Iranians will probably start suing as well, since the same WMD was used on their soldiers.
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