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ChristianToday
April 16, 2018
Indeed, in the case of Iraq, Britain became a target of such terrorists only after the invasion, not before, and the country had not been overrun by Islamic State until after 2003. Saddam was (very) bad, but he was not mad, and his relatively secular regime included his Christian deputy Tariq Aziz. SimilarlyÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 26, 2018
Aziz knew that Saddam Hussein had become the prisoner of his own image and preferred disaster to withdrawal. This is how the Desert Storm broke out. The sin of the occupation of Kuwait will generate other tragic chapters, including the overthrow of the Iraqi regime by overwhelming American force afterÃâà...
Inner City Press
March 22, 2018
UNITED NATIONS, March 22 – Less than two weeks after John Bolton said that US President Trump's talks with North Korea should consist of an ultimatum delivered in Geneva like to Saddam Hussein in 1991, Trust on the evening of March 22 named Bolton as his new National Security Adviser effective April 9, replacingÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 21, 2018
In March 2003, the US invaded oil-rich Iraq to topple the government of Saddam Hussein on the pretext of links to al-Qaeda and possession of weapons ... Others died in prison as Vice President Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, Prime Minister Mohammed Hamza al-Zubeidi, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz andÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 18, 2018
Others died in prison as Vice-President Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, Prime Minister Mohammed Hamza Al Zubeidi, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and ... A few former officials, however, remain at large, including Saddam's former deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri and director of the Iraqi Intelligence ServiceÃâà...
The New Arab
March 10, 2018
However, and during the reign of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the United States led an international embargo to punish Iraq for invading ... Ziad Tariq Aziz - the son of the veteran foreign minister, Tariq Aziz - condemned the order to seize assets as a "stunt to win votes" ahead of elections on MayÃâà...
Jordan Times
March 5, 2018
The list of ex-regime bosses was drawn up by the Iraqi agency charged with tracking down former officials from Saddam's Baath Party, and includes their ... Tareq Aziz, a veteran foreign minister who held the post of deputy prime minister before Saddam was ousted in the US-led invasion, is also on the list.
The New Arab
March 5, 2018
An Iraqi agency charged with tracking down former officials from Saddam's Baath party - including their relatives - drew up the list and follows an earlier ... Veteran Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz who held the post of deputy prime minister before Saddam was ousted in the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, is alsoÃâà...
The Press, York
February 23, 2018
Sir Malcolm Campbell, in a Blue Bird, had set a new world record of 272 miles per hour at Daytona Beach. Sir Malcolm had also established a new world record for five kilometres with a speed of 257,295 miles per hour. This was Sir Malcolm's sixth world record, an achievement unequalled in motoring sportÃâà...
Cherwell Online
January 13, 2018
Gyimah later caught the public eye in October 1997 when he attempted to invite Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister described as “the right-hand man of Saddam Hussein”, to speak at the Union. However, the Foreign Office refused Aziz a visa and said he was not allowed to travel in Britain. GyimahÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
January 10, 2018
Sam Gyimah, the MP East Surrey, experienced his own censorship row when he invited the then Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq to address Oxford's debating society, while he was a student at the university and the society's president. But Tariq Aziz, a close ally of Saddam Hussein who served under him forÃâà...
Jordan Times
December 14, 2017
“Iraqi justice is failing to distinguish between the culpability of doctors who protected lives under ISIS rule and those responsible for crimes against humanity,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director. HRW said it regretted what it called the inconsistent application of a 2016 law grantingÃâà...
New Republic
June 2, 2017
Two books shed new light on the toppled dictator's final days—and what the U.S. still doesn't understand about Iraq. ... baffled Saddam, who thought he could be an ally to the West in the war on terrorism—he had just sent off his latest novel for critiques to Tariq Aziz, his foreign minister and close adviser.
The New Yorker
June 8, 2015
Tariq Aziz, who died in an Iraqi prison hospital on Friday, at age seventy-nine, survived the lethal machinations of Saddam Hussein's inner circles for decades, only to find himself a prisoner of war in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion that toppled the regime. An urbane and witty man from Iraq's ChaldeanÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
June 5, 2015
Tariq Aziz, who has died aged 79, was the propaganda mouthpiece for Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party in Iraq, and the masterly negotiator ... But even though he was no longer foreign minister, he retained his position as a deputy prime minister and membership of the Revolutionary Command Council.
NPR
June 5, 2015
Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former foreign minister, dies in jail in Iraq. He was 79. Tariq Aziz, Saddam's Foreign Minister, Dies At 79 Ãâ÷ The Two-Way Ãâ÷ Tariq Aziz, Saddam's Foreign Minister, Dies At 79. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Tariq Aziz, one of Saddam Hussein's most loyal deputies, died today at theÃâà...
BBC News
June 5, 2015
Tariq Aziz, known as the face of Saddam Hussein's regime on the world stage for many years, has died in an Iraqi hospital, officials say. Aziz, 79, served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister and was a close adviser to the former leader. He was sentenced to death by the Iraqi Supreme Court inÃâà...
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