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Iraq government to put Tariq Aziz on trial
Australian News.Net Saturday 26th April, 2008
The Iraqi Special Tribunal, established under the U.S. by the Coalition Provisional Authority to try Iraqis for genocide, crimes against humanity,and war crimes is to try former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.
Aziz, the best known member of Saddam's regime, served as Foreign Minister and Deputy PM.
The English-speaking Catholic persistently told diplomats and reporters Iraq was not harboring weapons of mass destruction, claims later verified to be true.
Aziz, who surrendered to the Americans following the invasion by the U.S. and its coalition partners, in 2003, has been held in the Camp Cropper prison ever since without charges being laid.
Several countries, along with the spiritual leader of Iraq's Chaldean Christian community, Emmanuel III Delly, have endeavoured to obtain his release. He is reportedly suffering poor health.
The Iraqi government however is determined to try Aziz over the death of a number of merchants sixteen years ago, after they reportedly defied government policy and increased prices of their goods.
Nothing has been known of this until Thursday of this week when Jaffar Al Moussawi, a tribunal prosecutor, announced the trial of Aziz and other prominent members of Saddam's regime.
All charged will apear before the tribunal on Tuesday.
"Tariq Aziz will be presented for trial at the special tribunal over the execution of around forty merchants in 1992," Moussawi told Reuters.
Asked what the specific charges would be, Moussawi said: "It's believed he was involved in the case." Email this story to a friend
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Sammy 04-25-08, 11:02 AM |
Iraq government to put Tariq Aziz on trial
It seems that Mr. Tarig Aziz could be an inconvenient witness if the illegal invadors of Iraq get to be tried by the international criminal tribunal.
Because as the whole world knows: this man while being Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, always insisted that there were no arms of mass destruction in Iraq, and as it been known up to these days, no arms of mass destrucyion have been found in Iraq, thus making the Iraq invasion an illegal invasion, and really those that invaded Iraq should be the ones that should be on trial.
Sammy
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wacama 04-25-08, 01:32 PM |
Let him go so he work for food. May be work at the Taco stand in Irag.
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Anonymous 04-25-08, 04:57 PM |
America should be ashamed
Instead of walking away with its tail between its legs the US is still in occupation of Iraq years after its invasion was as Tariq Aziz once described it: “a hoax”
Aziz got up in front of all the TV cameras, traveled the world, addressing the UN there was no truth in what the Bushes were saying about Iraq and WMDs. What did George Bush do? He called him a liar.
Even when he gave himself up and was still insisting there were no WMDs, Bush said “how can you believe him, he’s been lying all these years”
Aziz should be released not put on trial. How you can lock a man up for all these years and then put him up on trumped up charges dating back 16 years is beyond me. No doubt this phony tribunal will find him guilty and hang him. I see this government hanged 28 people last week. Its worse than under Saddam.
If the Americans and the Iraq government were really interested in justice and resoring judicial integrity to Iraq, and they really believed Aziz was guilty of any crime, then they should send him to the International Court of Justice. They won’t of course because their intention is not for justice but to get him out of the way.
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Anonymous 04-25-08, 08:12 PM |
What hope for Iraq?
This man I always thought was decent and honest. He traveled the world stage, had an audience as I recall in February 2003 (just weeks before the invasion) asking the Pope to intervene, which he did. To be put in jail for a start after it was comprehensively established the pretext for war was dead-wrong is outrageous. The fact he is still there is deplorable. And now they are “putting him on trial” is a disgrace. Does the Iraqi government have no honour?
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waltky 04-26-08, 12:44 AM |
I remember this idiot. Always goin' `round runnin' his mouth off sayin' how Saddam had defeated America, the U.S. forces weren’t in Iraq when we entered Baghdad, etc.
:mad:
Granny says, “I hope dey hang his sorry butt” - she don’t like him.
:p
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NIkky 04-26-08, 08:35 AM |
Not fair.
This guy should be let go if nothing is found against him, and not just tried to satisfy somebody’s dark ego. He has been proven correct before. I hope he still is. I pity him, stacked against forces bigger than him.
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Anonymous 04-26-08, 06:47 PM |
Walty you've got the wrong man!
mr Waltky is confusing Mr Tariq Aziz with Saddam’s spokesman during the Iraq war, Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf .
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