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Iraq's special criminal court on Monday acquitted Tariq Aziz, the man who once served as the urbane, cigar-smoking public face of Saddam Hussein's rule, delivering the most significant not guilty verdict in a series of prosecutions for crimes against...
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Monday. “The session was presided over by Judge Raouf Rasheed,” Judge Aref al-Shahin told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Several International organizations estimated that nearly one million Iraqi Feyli Kurds were displaced by force between the years 1970...
London mayor fumes over Iraq cigar case probe Boris Johnson scorns being investigated on Aziz cigars while leaders like US President, former British PM are Scot free on Iraq war. London, 25 June 2008 (Middle East Online) London Mayor Boris Johnson poured...
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The team of foreign lawyers who had agreed to defend Aziz will not be present in court on Tuesday as they were not granted visas to travel to Baghdad. "All the lawyers who have declared their readiness to defend my father have not received visas to enter...
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Some of the defence team of Iraq's former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz want his trial to be transferred from Baghdad to outside the country, a member of the team said on Monday. Badie Izzat Aref, who lives in Amman, said the previous day that he had...
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Tareq Aziz…a biography Arbil, 30 April 2008 (Voices of Iraq) Tareq Aziz, the former deputy of Saddam Hussein, appears before Iraq's supreme criminal court on Tuesday on charges of "sabotaging national economy" as part of a case considering the 1992...
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Al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army "The Iraqi government also wants to avoid the public criticism for keeping an ailing man in prison for five years without presenting any charges against him," Aziz's son, Ziad, said in a telephone interview from Amman, Jordan...
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Mr Aziz, the former deputy prime minister and foreign minister, was the only Christian in the top ranks of the Baath party, and often acted as the regime's spokesman and negotiator. Speaking excellent English, he was always an effective speaker at meetings...
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The men, who served in Saddam Hussein's government, will appear in court on 29 April, the officials say. They include Saddam Hussein's half-brother, former Interior Minister Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan. They are accused of involvement in the summary execution...
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