Is this the guy that saddamn supposedly held in line by threatening his family? Christian? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Yes Tariq Aziz, actually Michal Johanna. Don’t know about the “threatened family” part, though,
Remember, Saddam's fascist Ba'athist empire was a secular fascist empire, not an Islamofascist empire.
The founder of the original Ba'ath party, Michel Aflaq (no relation to the duck), was also a Christian, who worked both in Syria's government and later Saddam's Iraqi government.