Tuesday, 26 Oct 2010 12:05 PM

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ML-Iraq/2010/10/26/id/374911

BAGHDAD (AP) — The international face of Saddam Hussein's regime, Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for persecuting Shiites just over three months after the Americans transferred him to Iraqi government custody.

Iraqi High Tribunal spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Sahib did not say when the 74-year-old former foreign minister would go to the gallows. Aziz has 30 days to launch an appeal.

Aziz, the only Christian in Saddam's mainly Sunni inner circle, was wearing a blue suit and sat alone in the court. He bowed his head and frequently grasped the handrail in front of him, as the judge read out the verdict.

His Jordan-based lawyer, Badee Izzat Aref, accused the government of orchestrating the verdict to divert attention from recent revelations about prisoner abuse by Iraqi security forces contained in U.S. military documents released last week by the whistleblower site WikiLeaks.

"We are discussing this issue and what next step we should take," Aref told The Associated Press in Amman, the Jordanian capital. "This sentence is not fair and it is politically motivated."

Aziz became internationally known as the dictator's defender and a fierce American critic first as foreign minister after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and later as a deputy prime minister. His meeting with Secretary of State James A. Baker in Geneva in January 1991 failed to prevent the 1991 Gulf War. Aziz also met with the late Pope John Paul II at the Vatican weeks before the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion in a bid to head off that conflict.
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Good news, I wondered what happened to the no good good Jerkoff.

Does anyone know whatever happened to Baghdad Bob?

That was my first thought too.

 

Well, bye.

Lives in UAE, never charged with anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf

He was so ridiculous that nobody cared.

:shrugs: its possible that all he was was a propaganda artist and didnt "do" anything..



 

He is alive & well, which is better than Saddam.

Wikipedia - Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf aka Baghdad Bob