Iraq's new Prime Minister Nouri Maliki — who is also sometimes called Jawad Maliki — is a stalwart of the Dawa party, the Shia political group that for years led an armed underground resistance to the secular Baathist leadership of Saddam Hussein | |
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" On 17 November 2010, it was reported that Iraqi President had declared that he would not sign Aziz's execution order | forces who have him in custody |
If the suspects are caught with weapons, it's only natural they should be arrested and put on trial".
Bush said the deputy prime minister, the most visible face of the former Iraqi government other than Hussein, 'still doesn't know how to tell the truth | After initial cooperation, Aziz rebuffed the delegations |
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Furthermore, according to , "several international human-rights groups have criticised the procedures and questioned the impartiality of the court | : "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? His lawyers had 30 days to lodge an appeal, following which the court would have another 30 days to look into the appeal; if the appeal is turned down the sentence would be carried out after another 30 days |
We have been in prison for a long time and we have been cut from our families.
8He condemned Arab states for "subservience to the United States' hegemony in the Middle East and their support for punitive sanctions | He was acquitted of some charges on 1 March 2009 following a trial, but was sentenced to 15 years on 11 March 2009 for the executions of 42 merchants found guilty of in 1992 and another 7 years for relocating Kurds |
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Even the parcels sent to us by our families are not given to us | At the time of his surrender, Aziz was ranked number 43 out of 55 in the American list of most-wanted Iraqis despite a belief "he probably would not know answers to questions like where weapons of mass destruction may be hidden and where Saddam Hussein might be |
Jordanian authorities said the body had not been stolen, but merely delayed until the relevant paperwork was filled out.
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