Tariq Aziz, Eight Of Spades, Top Saddam Hussein Aide, Dies After Heart Attack

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2015 · People & Blogs

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Iraq marshlands named Unesco World Heritage Site (BBC, July 18, 2016)
http://bbc.in/29JmWNo

Tariq Aziz, top Iraqi diplomat under Saddam Hussein, dies (CNN, June 5, 2015)
http://cnn.it/2a3qJHH
"Tariq Aziz, the imprisoned former Saddam Hussein lieutenant who served as a public face of the Iraqi dictator's government until the regime was toppled in 2003, died Friday of a heart attack at a hospital, two officials in the Mideast nation said.

He was 79.

Aziz, who'd been sentenced to death four years ago in one of several post-Hussein trials against him, died at a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, said Hussein al-Askay, the head of a Nasiriya prison, and Saad al-Majid, the director of the province's health department.

Aziz had been taken to the hospital after his medical condition deteriorated at the prison, the officials said.

Aziz often defended the Hussein regime on the international stage, serving as deputy prime minister from 1981 to 2003 and as foreign minister for part of that time...."



Tariq Aziz (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Aziz



Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, King Of Clubs, Aide To Saddam Hussein, Killed In Security Op 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdxpI9tM7sY



The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons (NYT, Oct 14, 2014)
http://nyti.ms/1vtdd67



Ecocide and Genocide in Iraq: International Law, the Marsh Arabs and Environmental Damage in Non-international Conflicts
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=442541##



The Mesopotamian Marshlands: Demise of an Ecosystem
http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/sustainable/tigris/mesopotamia.pdf

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