Tariq (or Tareq) Aziz

[Ghost Dog]

Tell me again. Why is this man still held without trial in a US concentration camp?

"It was Tariq Aziz who supported us in making the case to the UN Security Council for an increase in the size of the UN humanitarian exemption to sanctions. It was Tariq Aziz who made it possible for us to collect information on the effectiveness of the equitable distribution of humanitarian supplies. It was Tariq Aziz who allowed a critical presentation to the then Iraqi National Assembly on the human rights situation in Iraq. It was Tariq Aziz who contacted the Kurdish authorities to facilitate our travels across the line of control for talks with Kurdish authorities. We have known Tariq Aziz as a defender of the Iraqi people’s rights and as a person of high integrity.

"The continued confinement of a sick POW is at the individual level one example of the tragic mishandling of a nation. We are asking the US government to show statesmanship and release Tariq Aziz on humanitarian, if not legal, grounds." - http://www.brusselstribunal.org/AzizAppeal.htm


"Ailing former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz has been hospitalised after temporarily losing consciousness at the US prison where he is being held in Iraq and is intensive care, his son said on Saturday.

""On Tuesday, my father telephoned us to say that he had (temporarily) lost consciousness and that the American doctor and director of the prison decided to transfer him to hospital in Balad," north of Baghdad, Ziad Aziz told AFP in Amman by telephone.

""The prison doctor who examined him after he lost consciousness checked my father's medical history, and after seeing that he had suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in 2002, decided to transfer him to hospital."" - http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_2151178,00.html


""Is it normal that a sick, 71-year-old man should be imprisoned without having been charged?" he asked, adding that the prison doctor and director had "saved his life by deciding to hospitalise him."" - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070721/twl-iraq-jordan-us-aziz-3cd7efd.html

[atreides1]

1. Why?

Because the US military follows orders without question, that's why! It's too bad they can't honor their oath to the US Constitution as well!

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Kick. 'Cause he knows too much? nt

[dollie300]

3. Why? Because we can do any damn thing we want to.

Didn't you know that? Ask yourself this, why was Saddam hanged for a crime that others confessed to and said he nothing to do with? He didn't give any orders to them to do what they did. He never stood trial for murdering Kurds...he was hanged because his military went after folks who had attempted to assassinate him and overthow his government.

[Ghost Dog]

4. Many thanks for those remarks and

Welcome to DU :hi:

[Ikonoklast]

5. He's a Chaldean Christian

They are not going to do a thing to a Christian.

If he was a Sunni, well........

[DutchLiberal]

6. Be careful! You might get flamed for using the word 'concentration camp'.

Just as I got flamed for it. Some people think the only concentration camps that ever existed were the ones run by the Nazi's.

[Ghost Dog]

7. Yeah. Just like we're not supposed to describe Gaza as a ghetto.

Language is significant.

[Recursion]

8. Because nobody wants to admit Saddam had highly-placed Christians in the government?

Just a thought.