Former Iraqi minister Tareq Aziz will never turn on Saddam at trial

Former Iraqi minister Tareq Aziz will never turn on Saddam at trial: lawyer

A former top minister in Saddam Hussein's cabinet, Tareq Aziz, will never testify against the ex-Iraqi president when he goes on trial in Baghdad along with other members of the toppled regime, his lawyer said.


"Tareq Aziz told me that he would never attack Saddam Hussein during his trial, that it would not be right for him to do that," his attorney Badi Aref Izzat said in an interview in Paris. "But if he is freed, he will write a book where he would tell what he knows. He knows he is innocent. Tareq Aziz is weak physically but strong politically," Izzat said.

An English-speaking Christian, Aziz, 68, was a former deputy prime minister and foreign minister who became the best known spokesman of Saddam's regime to the outside world. He surrendered to American forces on April 24, 2003, shortly after the invasion and the overthrow of the regime.

Izzat, an Iraqi, said he had met with Aziz three times in the two years, including twice last month when "he was in bad physical shape, tired also by the interrogations of the UN commission" investigating alleged misuse of Iraq's oil-for-food program." He also said Aziz was "completely cut off from the world. I saw him in pyjamas."
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they're gonna get far with it personally.

But, then again, plenty who've been in Gitmo longer w/no access to any legal counsel, much less a charge filed.

Mohammed Saeed al-Saef aka "Baghdad Bob" was much better known and loved than Tariq who? This is an outrage! Whatever happened to ol' MSS anyway?

he has an office in dickies underground bunker...

by the US and was free.

He was working for some outside Middle Eastern news service. Haven't heard anyhing for months. He needs an American agent. Imagine the commercial opportunities at least.