Iraq: Key witness ‘fled’ from inquiry into chemical attack
Middle East • December 2008 • Views: 270
Sulaymaniya, 22 Dec. (AKI) - An Iraqi court has been told that a pilot allegedly responsible for poisoning Iraqi Kurds in the north of the country in 1988 has disappeared. The pilot, Tareq Ramadan, is accused of dropping toxic chemical bombs on the city of Halabja in an attack that occurred on 16 March 1988.