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Do you expect me, after all my history as a militant and as one of the Iraqi leaders, to go to an American prison – to go to Guantanamo? I would rath… - Tariq Aziz
" "Do you expect me, after all my history as a militant and as one of the Iraqi leaders, to go to an American prison – to go to Guantanamo? I would rather die
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About Tariq Aziz
Tariq Aziz (April 28, 1936 - June 5, 2015) was Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister (1979–2003) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Iraq) (1983–1991) and a close advisor of President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s when both were activists for the then-banned Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. An ethnic Assyrian, he was both an Arab nationalist and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church. He was sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal on October 26, 2010 for persecuting Islamic Parties. He died of a heart attack in custody at the age of 79.
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Native Name:
ܛܐܪܩ ܥܙܝ
Alternative Names:
Mikhail Yuhanna
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