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US: Aziz Rumour False
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| Last Updated: 16:05 UK, Wednesday March 19, 2003
Posted on 03/19/2003 8:21:23 AM PST by maquiladora
US officials have said rumours that Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz had either defected or been shot dead fleeing Baghdad are untrue.
The rumours affected oil prices in New York as the George W. Bush's deadline for Saddam and his sons to flee Iraq appraoched.
A US official said: "These rumours are just not true".
It had been rumoured that Aziz had fled to Kurdish-held northern Iraq.
But an a senior Kurdish source scoffed at the rumour Aziz was being held by Kurdish forces.
Rumours of the imprisonment, flight or death of member of Saddam Hussein's administration are common, but rarely turn out to be true.
Aziz was seen in Iraqi TV coverage of Tuesday's cabinet meeting with Saddam.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 19mar2003; aziz; gulfwarii; iraq; iraqwar; topplesaddam; warlist
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To: maquiladora
smelled funny
To: maquiladora
As rumors go, it was a good one~
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posted on
03/19/2003 8:23:26 AM PST
by
bonfire
To: maquiladora
I just love our new Office of Strategic Information!
To: cactusSharp
With the way things are though in a few hours, a few days, months, years, may happen ;)
5
posted on
03/19/2003 8:24:35 AM PST
by
JustPiper
(Pull out of the UN and drive into Bagdad)
To: maquiladora
How reliable is Sky News?
To: Fitzcarraldo
Sky news is Fox news
7
posted on
03/19/2003 8:26:38 AM PST
by
stilts
To: Fitzcarraldo
It's a UK 24 hour news channel.
Sky News has won the Royal Television Society's News Channel of the Year award. And for his work in an unprecedented year of breaking news stories, our political editor, Adam Boulton, won the prestigious Judge's Award.
Friday March 01, 2002
To: maquiladora
U.S. Denies as 'Not True' Rumors on Iraq's Aziz
Wed March 19, 2003 10:45 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Wednesday said rumors that Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz had either defected to U.S. authorities or was shot trying to flee Baghdad were untrue.
"These rumors are just not true," a U.S. official told Reuters.
[snip]
To: stilts
Sky news is Fox news They are affiliated with Fox, but Sky is also affiliated with CBS too, or at least they were.
To: maquiladora
Wow! This means DEBKA is unreliable!
I'm saddened, saddened at this news.
< /sarcasm>
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posted on
03/19/2003 8:31:24 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: maquiladora
Darn....just darn....I was so hoping....
But just think of the morale boosting role that DEBKA play in this war if they keep this up!
To: maquiladora
Ah, I welcome myself to your thread. :)
I'll put the link to it in mine.
To: maquiladora
Where's Aziz? 
14
posted on
03/19/2003 8:40:02 AM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
(It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
To: maquiladora; All
The rumours affected oil prices in New York . . . Which way, up or down?
To: anniegetyourgun
LOL
To: cactusSharp; da_toolman
Don't they all?
< smell funny that is>?
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posted on
03/19/2003 8:43:01 AM PST
by
phasma proeliator
(it's better to die with honor than to live without it.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If Aziz were to flee Iraq, I'll bet he makes a beeline for Vatican City.
18
posted on
03/19/2003 8:43:03 AM PST
by
UncleSamUSA
(the land of the free and the home of the brave)
To: maquiladora
I thought they were affiliated with CNN.
19
posted on
03/19/2003 8:44:37 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Lurking since 2000.)
To: HairOfTheDog
Heh Hair! Long time no see!
(Debkafile exclusive: Aziz Is The Guy In The Bear Costume)
:-)
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