TARIQ AZIZ DIES in US custody !!!

[rooboy]

breaking on cable news now. (Sky Australia TV).

[NMDemDist2]

1. ooops! that won't look good for chimpy at all n/t

[rooboy]

6. Aziz was the only CHRISTIAN in the regime...

at least we know it's not a war against Islam, eh?

[DuctapeFatwa]

8. I think you may be overestimating the public's concern for the fate of

those seized by the warlords. I doubt many non-news junkie voters even know he was a Christian.

[rooboy]

10. Seized by the warlords??

Aziz was captured by the coalition very early after the fall of Baghdad and had been in coalition custody ever since.

[Was_Immer]

16. I think he was being sarcastic, but also unsure

[DuctapeFatwa]

17. no, I was trying to be euphemistic and polite

[saigon68]

2. Did they Put 220 volts through the wire attached to his PENIS ???

Or merely ram a plastic Pipe up his Rectum?????????????

[Arancaytar]

3. "Mh. We never thought that would KILL him..."

Bush is totally screwed. The only thing this can get any worse for him is if Saddam follows suit.

[allemand]

4. U.S. military: Saddam Hussein`s deputy PM Tariq Aziz is alive and well

14:23 AFP: U.S. military says Saddam Hussein`s deputy PM Tariq Aziz is alive and well

14:18 Al Arabiya television station: Saddam Hussein`s deputy PM, Tariq Aziz, dies in U.S. custody
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/ShTickers.html

Strange.

[allemand]

15. Reuters: U.S. Military Says Iraq's Tareq Aziz Still Alive

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Saturday it had "absolute confirmation" that Tareq Aziz, Iraq (news - web sites)'s former deputy prime minister, is still alive.

"I can absolutely confirm that he is still alive," Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnston, spokesman for detainee operations in Iraq, told Reuters, following reports on Arab television stations that he had died.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041009/ts_nm/iraq_aziz_dc_1

[allemand]

20. AFP: US denies reports Iraq's former deputy PM Aziz has died in custody

BAGHDAD, Oct 9 (AFP) - Tareq Aziz, the former Iraqi deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), is alive, the US military in Iraq (news - web sites) said, denying television reports that he had died in custody.

m that Tareq Aziz is alive, there is no change in his status and he is in our custody," said a spokesman for the US-led prisons authority in Iraq, Barry Johnson.

"He was alive five minutes ago," he told AFP at about 3:10 pm (1210 GMT).

Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television said that Aziz had died in custody, quoting sources in the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041009/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_aziz_us_041009123535

[no safe haven]

21. Breakfast at Bernies type trial on the horizon? n/t

[Francesca]

5. Is this serious...

Not that I would be surprised but have not found anything on it......

[rooboy]

7. Yes, it's serious. Was a newsflash on Australian Cable tv... n/t

[UpInArms]

9. without knowing any details, I can only wonder

if his death had anything to do with this:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/10/09/2003206190

In a stunning insight into Saddam's preparations for war provided by former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz, the report describes how Saddam called his senior military officers together in December 2002, only three months before the invasion, and informed them that he had no WMD.

The officers until that point had believed Saddam had had some hidden, and the revelation resulted in a sudden drop in morale as they realized they would have to confront the US without WMD. The report also records an officer saying that if the Iraq military had had WMD, Saddam would have used them to protect his regime.

[Cooley Hurd]

11. No links at Google news yet....

Hasn't Aziz been dead a few times before (during the war, he was reported killed at one point)?

Interesting thing... upon googling "Tariq Aziz," I found out that another "Tariq Aziz" is an agent for Pakistan's Musharraf.

[DuctapeFatwa]

12. Here's a link

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1154884,00.html

[jobycom]

14. Sky News? Aren't they the ones who reported Katherine Harris died

in a plane crash?

[Was_Immer]

18. Whoo Hooo

[rooboy]

23. Doubt it...

they're a News Corp channel like Fox except they operate in Australia and the UK. Unlike Fox, though, they actually have some reporters and try to do serious news.

[underpants]

13. Hey hey hey let's not overreact, he just fell down

38 times

Sad to hear of anyone passing.

[Mr.Green93]

19. dead men tell no tales

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

22. Yeah, I hear it's possible to fall down 50 times

in rapid succession and have bruises over 90% of your body and nothing unusual here /sarcasm.

[Moderator]

24. Please do not post

announcements from telvision shows without a link.

This has been denied by reputable news sources.