Posted on 04/28/2008 9:51:12 PM PDT by james500
Iraq's former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is due on trial over the deaths of a group of merchants in 1992.
Mr Aziz, along with seven other former members of Saddam Hussein's regime, are accused of involvement in the execution of about 40 merchants in Baghdad.
The merchants were accused of hiking food prices at a time when Iraq was under international sanctions. They were executed after a speedy trial.
Mr Aziz's son, Ziad, has said that his father is innocent.
"My father told me personally that he had nothing to do with this case. At the time, my father was on an official assignment outside of Iraq," Ziad Aziz told the AFP news agency.
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are accused of involvement in the execution of about 40 merchants in Baghdad.
So? I can’t stand the guy, and I’m pretty sure that he is guilty of any number of crimes, but I’m not sure about this one.
Setting aside rhetoric, were the trials legal at that time?
Been wondering when this number was coming up.
The hangman is going to have a busy time in Iraq ere all of this is done.
In the Dujail trial, judge Raouf Abdul-Rahman looked at execution warrants signed by the defendants for the Dujail victims. The main thing he wanted was to know if there was any due process before the warrant was signed. If an execution warrant was signed without consideration, the judge ruled it to be a crime against humanity. I believe most of those defendants, including Saddam’s brother in law, were found guilty and hung.
So the Iraqi legal precedent has be set. This new case involves execution warrants signed by Tariq Aziz amongst others. If the judge finds that they signed them without consideration, they’ll be found guilty and probably hung.
Scumbag. I remember after gulf war 1, he was being interviewed on some news program like CNN and they took calls. One lady called and said she was Kuwaiti, she had been living in the US at the time Saddam troops invaded Kawuit. She said they had raped and murdered two of her cousins.
He said, “You’re a silly little woman” and told them to hang up on her.
Tariq Aziz is total scum. Even worse they always tried to make a point by pronouncing that he is a “Christian”. Yeah right... Aziz was Satan’s right hand man.
Stalin was also secular, as were actually most mass-murdering dictators of the 20th Century. I don’t give a rip about Saddam’s or Aziz’s alleged religions. Saddam was a genocidal Arab Nazi, an enemy of the United States and humanity and a supporter of Arab supremacist and Islamist terrorists.
His regime was one of the most vile and aggressive on planet in the last decades.
Aziz deserves the rope just as much as Ribbentrop did for their “diplomacy”.
You are right. I don’t think Aziz really carried any power in the regime and I don’t think he would have it in him even if he were given the opportunity. I believe that it was Aziz who actually tried to get Saddam to get rid of Iraq’s mid-range missile program because it was in violation of the UN mandate, but evidently no one ever read anything the UN mandated because no one in the regime knew how many KMs their missiles could legally range.
He helped kill innocent American soldiers in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Thanks guys.
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Aziz deserves a trial as there’s no definite proof that he was complicit — unlike Saddy who was guilty, without any doubt. All the Cardinal is saying is that Aziz should be tried in a court of law, instead of languishing in limbo
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