Tareq Aziz, top Saddam Hussein aide, sentenced to death
An Iraqi court has sentenced Tareq Aziz, the diplomatic face of Saddam Hussein’s Baathist government, to death. The former deputy prime minister and foreign minister was convicted of persecution against members of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s religious Shiite Dawa Party during Saddam’s regime. Aziz was already serving prison sentences for crimes against humanity and the forced displacement of Kurds in northern Iraq. Jim Muir, the BBC’s Baghdad correspondent, reports live from Iraq.
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