Seller Tied to Hussein's Gas Attack Is Convicted

A Dutch court concluded the first trial involving the mass killing of Iraqi Kurds with chemical weapons in the town of Halabja in 1988. It convicted Mr. van Anraat, 63, of complicity in a war crime, as supplier of the weapon ingredients, and sentenced him to 15 years in jail, while the judges wrote that "the crimes are of such a grave nature that even the maximum sentence cannot do them justice.". An appeal has been announced. Mr. van Anraat had been arrested already in 1989 in Italy at the request of the US Government before becoming a fugitive in Iraq.

(NY Times, Yahoo! Actualités)

Of course, French arm dealers who never have done such a thing, wouldn't they?