Photo: Tariq Aziz, who served as Iraq's deputy prime minister during the Saddam Hussein regime, listened to the judge's verdict in a Baghdad courtroom. Agence France-Presse, via Al-Iraqia TVFrom The New York Times:
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s special criminal court on Monday acquitted Tariq Aziz, the man who once served as the urbane, cigar-smoking public face of Saddam Hussein’s rule, in the first of three cases against him, delivering the most significant not guilty verdict in the prosecutions for crimes against humanity that occurred before the American invasion in 2003.
The acquittal was on charges of responsibility for a brutal crackdown against Shiite protesters that followed the assassination of a revered cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed al-Sadr, in 1999.
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My Comment: His life is finished. He may survive the trial process, but his crimes (even if he is acquitted) and his support of Saddam Hussein will be with him till the day that he dies.
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