Witness in Saddam Aide Trial Tells of Executions (Tariq Aziz)

Reuters via ABC News ^ | May 20, 2008

[james500]

Iraqi security forces under Saddam Hussein executed traders for breaking price controls and then banned their families from giving them proper funerals, a witness in the trial of a top Saddam aide said on Tuesday.

Ex-Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, accused of playing a role in the execution of dozens of traders, denied involvement. Aziz, who was the public face of Saddam's regime, went on trial last month.

They were executed after being accused of breaking price controls imposed in the wake of U.N. sanctions on Iraq in 1990s.

Aziz appeared in court wearing a grey suit and supported by a walking stick, a far cry from the once confident diplomat who exhibited faultless English and strong nerves in Iraq's crises.

Witness Abdul-Amir Jabbar Nadir said one of his brothers and father, then 75, were executed alongside other merchants.

After enquiring about their fate, he was told his relatives were at the morgue and that a funeral should not be held.

[james500]

The judge in this case is Judge Rauf Rasheed Abdel Rahman. He's the tough old Kurd that sentenced Saddam to death.

[BOBTHENAILER]

American security forces under Barak Hussein Obama/Hillary executed Oil & Gas traders, drillers and producers for breaking price controls and avoiding windfall profits taxes and then banned their families from the New Socialist United States.

There, now its fixed.

[steve7]

This is the guy that they should offer a deal to verify the wmd assets, and where they were shipped before the war.

[TexGuy]

This is the guy that they should offer a deal to verify the wmd assets, and where they were shipped before the war.

BINGO! ... Find him guilty, Sentence him to death, and then offer him a deal ...