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Iraq
Ex-Iraqi deputy prime minister threatens hunger strike in jail
2007-07-27
Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, who collapsed in a US military prison earlier this month, is in failing health and he has threatened to go on hunger strike, his son told AFP on Thursday. “I spoke to my father on the phone yesterday. His voice was weak and inaudible. I could hardly understand him but he is clearly in bad shape,” Ziad Aziz said, in a telephone interview. He said that he understood from his father “that he and 14 co-detainees plan on starting a hunger strike next week if the court continues to deny him the right to have a lawyer present during interrogations. “My father’s lawyer — Badih Aref Ezzat — is not allowed in Iraq for mysterious reasons and as a result my father is without a lawyer,” said Aziz who has lived in Jordan with his family since April 2003.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Hey, raining hot mud, huh? Tap an IV and feed it to Tariq.

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2007-07-27 10:25  

#5  Raining hot mud......maybe Iraq is hell.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-07-27 10:13  

#4  It's 119f here right now and it just started raining hot mud thru a dust storm. First time it has rained since February or March. Tareq old boy, you've got a lovely country here so you might as well be hot, muddy wet, miserable AND hungry with the rest of us.
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-07-27 08:51  

#3  He's been in poor health since before checking in to the Hotel Cropper. I have no direct knowledge any longer, but it's extremely unlikely that he's being "denied" legal representation - the "defense" counsel were often quite dirty, not even kosher to enter Iraq, and of course they have been pulling stunts like this since No. 1 tried his hunger strike thingy (twice).

The sympathy meter in Iraq and the region (ahemm, we should post it here) looks about like the usual one we see on the 'burg. Near zero.

As I recall, Aziz is a defendant in the marshes case. Seemed odd given my knowledge of the case, but then I didn't know much about it.
Posted by: Verlaine   2007-07-27 02:37  

#2  I was so moved by this poor sumbitch's plight that I went and made a ham and swiss on rye with mayo. Oh, the humanity!
Posted by: SteveS   2007-07-27 01:50  

#1  Oh no! Not that!!
Posted by: tu3031   2007-07-27 01:43  

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