FRENCH LAWYER JACQUES VERGES WILL REPRESENT SADDAM HUSSEIN
French lawyer Jacques Verges, in a file photo from Amman, Jordan, December 18, 2003, said on March 27, 2004, that Saddam Hussein's nephew had chosen him to represent Saddam Hussein in his upcoming war crimes tria. Verges is known for defending Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and guerrilla Carlos the Jackal and is presently defending former Iraqi deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. (UPI Photo/Debbie Hill)
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ROME, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The legal team representing former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz called on Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to pardon the Christian leader.
PARIS, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told a French news agency Wednesday he wouldn't sign an execution order for former deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.
PARIS, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday he won't sign the execution order for former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz.
MOSCOW, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A death sentence for former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz is an effort to cover up Washington's interference in Iraqi affairs, a Russian official said.
AMMAN, Jordan, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The Iraqi courts should be investigating Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and not Tariq Aziz, his son said after his father was sentenced to hang.
LONDON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Baghdad could turn a new page by overturning the death sentence for former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and other convicted leaders, Amnesty International said.
VATICAN CITY, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The Vatican hopes Iraq won't carry out the death sentence handed to former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, a spokesman said.
ROME, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A death sentence Tuesday for former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is a malicious act by the courts, one of his lawyers said.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- An Iraqi court sentenced Tariq Aziz, a former key aide to Saddam Hussein, to death Tuesday for Aziz's role in crimes against rival political parties.
BAGHDAD, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Tariq Aziz, one of Saddam Hussein's top lieutenants, said in his first interview since his arrest in 2003 that President Obama is "leaving Iraq to the wolves."
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