Tariq Aziz given additional 10-year jail term for persecution of Shia Kurds

alp227

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Mon Nov-29-10 05:19 PM
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Tariq Aziz given additional 10-year jail term for persecution of Shia Kurds

Source: The Guardian

Tariq Aziz was today given a further 10-year jail sentence, adding to the 15-year term he is already serving and a death sentence for crimes he committed as Saddam Hussein's right-hand man.

However, Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, again appeared to back a push for clemency, repeating that he would not sign a warrant condemning Aziz.

Aziz, 74, a former Ba'athist henchman who is now in failing health, has attracted support from unlikely quarters as the ghosts of Saddam's 30-year rule are exorcised in a series of trials in Baghdad.

Today's verdict related to a charge that he had participated in the persecution of Shia Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war. Two of Saddam's half-brothers were found not guilty.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/29/tariq-aziz-iraq-sentence-kurds

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cyr330

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Mon Nov-29-10 05:23 PM
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1. Hmmm

Edited on Mon Nov-29-10 05:25 PM by cyr330

Although I'm sure this man is one wicked motherfucker, I was pleased he wasn't given the death sentence, as I'm against it. Nonetheless, he DOES deserve some form of punishment.

On edit: Oops, I see he WAS given the death penalty, but perhaps this will be reversed?

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Blacksheep214

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Mon Nov-29-10 05:59 PM
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2. Put him in a small room

with Baghdad Bob!

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aquart

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Mon Nov-29-10 06:35 PM
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3. I'm pro-death penalty but I'm pleased they didn't execute him.

It wasn't easy staying alive under Saddam (although easier than under the American invasion) and I don't necessarily want to kill him for being nimble.

But I also like Kurds so cool on the extra sentence for Kurd killing...NOT THAT IT MEANS IRAQ WILL BE NICER TO THEM.

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cyr330

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Mon Nov-29-10 07:02 PM
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4. Yeah. . .

I bet he'll have a worse time being imprisoned than he would being executed! Execution is not always the hard way out! Let him have the rest of his life to reflect on what's he's done. . .

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razorman

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Mon Nov-29-10 09:44 PM
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5. Does this mean he'll be dead 10 years longer?

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unkachuck

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Mon Nov-29-10 10:38 PM
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6. if we can let the chimp retire in peace and comfort....

....we should at least encourage the Iraqis to afford clemency to aziz....a courtesy from one group of thugs to another....

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