Tariq Aziz Gets 15 Years

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Tariq Aziz Gets 15 Years

World | Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:46:22 am PDT
Saddam Hussein henchman Tariq Aziz has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in the kangaroo court trial and execution of 42 Baghdad merchants; apparently Aziz still has influence in Iraq, because two of Hussein’s half-brothers are going to be hanged.

BAGHDAD, March 11 — An Iraqi court sentenced Iraq’s former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, and Ali Hassan al-Majeed, a senior colleague of Saddam Hussein, to 15 years in prison Wednesday for their role in what the court deemed a crime against humanity, the killing of 42 merchants in Baghdad in 1992 for profiteering.

The sentence was the first against Aziz, a fluent English speaker who was the public face of Hussein’s government before turning himself into U.S. authorities a month after his government fell in April 2003. It comes less than two weeks after the 73-year-old Aziz was acquitted by the same court, Iraq’s highest, in another case.

Two of Hussein’s half-brothers, Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan and Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, were sentenced to death for their role in the executions.

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