Iraq’s Aziz May Die in Months, Must Be Freed, Son Says
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Saddam Hussein’s deputy and former Iraqi foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, may die within months and should be freed from prison “as a humanitarian gesture,” his eldest son said.
“He won’t survive more than two to three months,” Ziad Tariq Aziz said of his father in a phone interview today from Amman, Jordan. The 74-year-old has had three strokes in the eight years he has been in prison and can no longer speak or walk, his son said. The family has sent medicine to his Baghdad jail “but no one knows if he took it or not,” he added.