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Title: Iraqi President Says No To Tariq Aziz Death Order
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... AULT&CTIME=2010-11-17-12-08-23
Published: Nov 17, 2010
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2010-11-17 12:46:50 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 4071
Comments: 5

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's president said Wednesday he won't sign off on a death penalty sentence against one of Saddam Hussein's closest confidantes, Tariq Aziz, setting the stage for a possible battle over the fate of the man known as the international face of the dictator's regime.

The decision to prosecute and execute members of Saddam's regime is a source of controversy in Iraq where many members of the country's Shiite majority, who suffered under the ousted Sunni-dominated regime, want vengeance for past crimes.

Aziz, 74, was Christian and not Sunni, but many in the Sunni community view his conviction and those of others as proof they'll forever be held responsible for actions carried out years ago. The Vatican has urged Iraq to not carry out the death sentence and said it may try to intervene diplomatically to halt it.

During an interview that aired Wednesday with France 24 TV, President Jalal Talabani cited a number of reasons for refusing to approve the execution.

"I cannot sign an order of this kind because I am a Socialist," Talabani said. "I feel compassion for Tariq Aziz because he is a Christian, an Iraqi Christian."

"In addition, he is an elderly man - aged over 70 - and this is why I will never sign this order," Talabani said in Arabic through a translator. He was speaking in Paris, where he attended a meeting of the Socialist International this week.

Talabani has refused to sign off on death sentences for other former regime members, including former defense minister Sultan Hashim al-Taie, who signed the cease-fire with U.S.-led forces that ended the 1991 Gulf war and remains in U.S. custody.

However, it was not immediately clear whether Talabani's opposition would necessarily spare Aziz's life. Under the constitution, the president is supposed to ratify death sentences, but there are mechanisms for the execution to be carried out through parliament or with the approval of one of Talabani's deputies.

Justice Ministry spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar told The Associated Press that death penalties can be carried out regardless of the president's refusal to sign an execution order.

"If the president refuses to sign an execution that is not a veto on a verdict," Bayrkdar said.

Tariq Harib, one of Iraq's leading lawyers, said the president cannot single-handedly prevent the death penalty from being carried out because one of his deputies can sign it instead.

If Iraq's appeals court upholds the death penalty for Aziz, the verdict will be sent to the parliament, then to the president for ratification, Harib said.

Aziz's lawyers have previously said they will appeal the verdict, but it was not immediately clear if they have formally challenged the death sentence. They have eight days left to do so.

The Oct. 26 sentence came two months after Aziz was transferred from U.S. to Iraqi custody.

Aziz was the highest-ranking Christian in Saddam Hussein's inner circle. He was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging on Oct. 26 for his role in persecuting members of the Shiite religious parties that now dominate the country.

Aziz, who surrendered to U.S. forces about a month after the war started in March 2003, has already been convicted in two other cases, receiving a combined 22 years in prison. In an interview with The Associated Press this summer, Aziz predicted he would die in prison.

In the long-running case for which he received the death penalty, Aziz was accused of being part of a campaign of persecuting, killing and torturing members of the Shiite opposition and religious parties banned under Saddam. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is a member of one of the religious parties central to the case.

Aziz's supporters have argued that he was not responsible for the crimes for which he's accused but is being persecuted simply because he was a member of Saddam's regime.

Aziz's eldest son, Ziad, praised Talabani for his position.

"I want to reassert that my father's execution sentence was a political decision. Therefore, it's null and void," said Aziz's son, speaking from neighboring Jordan where he lives. "As a family, we thank the president and we appreciate his decision."

The pursuit of criminal cases against former members of Saddam's regime demonstrates the deep hatred that exists even today among the country's current Shiite leadership and within the Shiite population as well.

Aziz became internationally known as the dictator's defender and a fierce American critic as foreign minister after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and later as a deputy prime minister who frequently traveled abroad on diplomatic missions.

His meeting with then-Secretary of State James A. Baker in Geneva in January 1991 failed to prevent the 1991 Gulf War.

Years later, Aziz met with the late Pope John Paul II at the Vatican just weeks before the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion in a bid to head off that conflict.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

He should not be executed.

A K A Stone  posted on  2010-11-18   7:00:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)

He should not be executed.

Well lookey here. An unexpected comment from you, A K.

8D

The Problem for the Us administered Iraqi Puppets:

"However, it was not immediately clear whether Talabani's opposition would necessarily spare Aziz's life. Under the constitution, the president is supposed to ratify death sentences, but there are mechanisms for the execution to be carried out through parliament or with the approval of one of Talabani's deputies."

Parliament is not 'in session' because 8 months after 'election', there is still no government. Talabani is the only thing between Maliki/Shia and Allawy/Sunni.

And Allawy has already walked out of the latest foiled attempt by Maliki to start his Iranian backed 'gov't'.

Thus Aziz becomes the latest symbol of who;s in control.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-11-18   9:16:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All (#2)

In the meantime, I note that this is the ONLY Foreign News article in the entire column to the right.

Still think that Chinese/LA Missile was NBD? LMFAO:

Post Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:08 am by mcgowanjm The Kill Shot:

Note the difference in Russia and China Foreign Policy.

Based on the Last 100 years. And how both have acted to preserve their interests. Russia is right now negotiating the return of the Warsaw Pact. Watch. It has the resources. Markets. It seeks a buffer of protection.

China, on the other hand, is looking to guarantee it's resource requirements and markets.

IRAN AND PAKISTAN

China and the world have seen Iraq and Afghanistan destroyed. They are watching Pakistan be destroyed by an American policy that can have no purpose other than to see Pakistan dismembered and crushed. America's covert war against Pakistan, a nation that has been an American ally since its inception, is a senseless policy. Now, with the "sea change" toward increased Israeli influence in America's government, the onset of the new extremist "Tea Party" wing of "Israeli firsters," an attack on Iran, one of China's closest allies and largest suppliers of crude oil, is expected at any time.

China has no doubts that America, as it is currently "misgoverned," stands ready to do anything as a pretense for war even though its last two military adventures are both "unresolved," a generous term for "failed."

It is also clear to China and others that America's ruling cabal, calling it a government is a certain misnomer, no longer functions in the national interest. If the Chinese missile launch, providing it was the Chinese, was a warning of something, it was a warning based on this knowledge.

"If America can't be trusted to take care of its own people and exercise its position as world superpower with sensibility and restraint, "there's a new sheriff in town."

The Sheriff just did a Gary Cooper/Kevin Costner. We can do this the Easy way or the Hard way. Your call. 8-) IMHO watch.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-11-18   9:17:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: All (#3)

GORDON DUFF: THE “CALIFORNIA MYSTERY MISSILE”

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mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-11-18   9:18:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: All (#4)

Tareq Aziz, the Foreign Secretary and the Convention against Torture by Felicity Arbuthnot. Posted on October 28, 2010 by dandelionsalad ... dandelionsalad.wordpress....re-by-felicity-arbuthnot/ - Cached

"We keep waiting breathlessly for someone, somewhere, to have a day of reckoning over the prisoners we tortured in the wake of 9/11, without recognizing that there is no bag man to be found and that therefore we are all the bag man.

President Barack Obama decided long ago that he would "turn the page" on prisoner abuse and other illegality connected to the Bush Administration’s war on terror. What he didn’t seem to understand, what he still seems not to appreciate, is that what was on that page would bleed through onto the next page and the page after that. There’s no getting past torture. There is only getting comfortable with it. The U.S. flirtation with torture is not locked in the past or in the black sites or prisons at which it occurred. Now more than ever, it’s feted on network television and held in reserve for the next president who persuades himself that it’s not illegal after all."

Not All of Us are the BagMan. ;} Those who constantly fight to remind what's at stake, that we go NoWhere until we get History right, are not 'All the BagMan. 8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-11-18   9:22:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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