[Al Arabiya Latest] Former Iraq deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz has suffered a stroke and been moved from jail to a U.S. military hospital, his lawyer told AFP on Sunday."He suffered a stroke on Friday and was transferred to a hospital in the U.S. base at Balad," 70 kilometers (45 miles) north of Baghdad, said lawyer Badie Aref.
"His condition is serious and they will decide today whether he stays in hospital or should be returned to Camp Cropper," the U.S.-run prison in Baghdad where he is detained.
| He can be hanged even if he's gibbering. I bet he can hanged even if he's comatose. In fact, I'm pretty sure it'll still work the same as if he's fully conscious. |
Aziz's son, Ziad Tareq Aziz, said his father apparently suffered a stroke last Friday. He said he was getting his information from another prisoner at the U.S. detention facility where his father was being held.
"It was a brain clot," Ziad Tareq Aziz said. "Today we were told that he has been moved to an American military hospital and that he suffered a second brain stroke that made him lose his ability to talk."
Aref, however, did not specify if the latest stroke was cardiac or neurological.
Aziz was named foreign minister in 1983 and then deputy prime minister in 1991. The 73-year-old turned himself in to U.S. forces in April 2003 after Saddam Hussein was overthrown. Aziz has been convicted for crimes against humanity.
| Let's remember that last part ... |