MSNBC Reports Tariq Aziz Shot.

MSNBC

[Licensed-To-Carry]

MSNBC just reported that he was shot trying to leave Iraq. No further details available yet.

[kevao]

On Monday night, Tony Snow was talking about his interview with Aziz. Snow mentioned to Aziz that he heard that his son had been imprisoned. Aziz confirmed it and then added that the matter had since "been cleared up."

[ErnBatavia]

Your screen name reminds me of the riddle that's making the rounds:

What do Saddam Hussein and George Custer have in common?

They both had the same last words: "Where did all those Tomahawks come from??"

[E Rocc]

Who was the Iranian spokesman during the hostage crisis? The last name was something like Ghodisi.

Sadeq Ghotzbadeh, he was the foreign minister and was executed for treason in 1982. Former President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr would have been too, but he escaped.

-Eric

[dmz]

good thing fox news doesn't do that /sarcasm

[Bronzewound]

WOW! That was quick! The resemblance is closer than I thought. LOL

[johnb838]

Exactly! We need him to sing like a canary. Only role in transition to point out the ba'athists so we don't appoint them. Maybe he split and Saddam shot his son in a fit of pique ooops, Frainsh word! Shot him in a fit of... damn, nothing goes there as well as pique. Aziz was not on the most wanted list so that could have gotten him shot as well. I think we have been betraying some of these guys with a 'kiss' (offers of asylum then revealed in the press).

[b4its2late]

Where's Waldo?

[theophilusscribe]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,392151,00.html

Murders and mutilation in Iraq revealed
Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
Friday November 3, 2000
The Guardian

" . . .'These high-level prisoners were held in the cells for detainees rather than in the prison itself and were only there for a number of days,' one document says. Among those held was Ziyad Aziz, son of the deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz. The document de scribes the layout of the prison in detail. 'The execution area, the hadiqa (garden) is located near the women's [part of the] prison. The hadiqua is an open area with a sandbank covered by an awning' where prisoners were killed by machine gun. Between 1993 and 1998 about 3,000 prisoners were executed there, it says."

[Bronzewound]

WOW! That was quick! The resemblance is closer than I thought. LOL

[Redleg Duke]

Yep! We might as well just give it up right now, eh? Tell everyone that France was right and so was Koffe?

[DonnerT]

Sadman D'Assole'

[FreeTheHostages]

If I had to be, I'd bet that we've done a good job, CIA or special ops, of teaming with locals, and parts of the new Iraqi military power structure is already siding with the Americans.

[bray]

Apparently the one life has been lost because President Bush failed at his diplomacy. His being shot by Saddam is a direct result of President Bush' diplomatic failure. I am shocked, shocked...yada, yada, yada....LET'S ROLL!!!

Pray for GW and Our Troops

[N. Theknow]

Thank you Mrs. Peel.

*sigh*

You have no idea the crush I had/have on you.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

They shot Larry Tate? Who'da thunk it?

[hotpotato]

I wrote this on another thread. Thought I'd add it here.

I remember this written about Aziz by Christopher Hitchens (has always stayed with me):

"The son of deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz was sentenced to 22 years of imprisonment last year; he has since been released and rearrested and released again, partly no doubt to show who is in charge.... Saddam Hussein likes to use as envoys the men he has morally destroyed; men who are sick with fear and humiliation, and whose families are hostages."

You can get the full story (a really good read if you haven't read it yet) at:

A Case For War In Iraq

[TomGuy]

Saddam's demise will probably end in a shoot-out. Not from outsiders, but this:

Saddam shoots a General who brought in a bad message.
Another General attempts to assassinate Saddam.
Saddam shoots him.
Another General shoots at Uday. Quasay uses that as an excuse to shoot Saddam. Saddam shoots at Quasay who ducks and the bullit hits Uday. The remaining living generals see the 3 stooges in a stooper and die laughing as the 3-some take each other out.

Enter SAS. "What happened here?" as they see a room of dead bodies and dead Saddam's hands still squeezing dead Quasay's neck.

[KingPin]

Someone needs to do a pic of Aziz with tourist guy.

[michigander]

Unconfirmed opposition reports: Tareq Aziz shot dead

19-03-2003

The Iraqi opposition is trying to verify reports indicating that Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz may have been killed on his way to the Kurdish part of the country.

Ismail Zayer of the Iraqi opposition broke the news Wednesday, interviewed for Radio Free Europe.

According to BTA, Zayer expressed hope that this news will be confirmed by an independent source by Thursday. "The Iraqi opposition has reasons to believe that Aziz has attempted to escape into the Kurdish region of Iraq," Zayer said.

"We have received no confirmation of such information," Iraqi Charge d'Affaires in Sofia Yahya Mahdi told BTA.

"This is not true. Mr Tariq Aziz is a well-known patriot, he will stay in Iraq and he will be in Iraq till his last moment," the charge d'affaires said. He conveyed that the murder allegation is "cheap propaganda against Iraq."

"They are aggressors and have no grounds whatsoever in terms of international law or the practice of international relations," the diplomat said in connection with the planned military operation against his country.

"We have no concrete information about Tareq Aziz," Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Lyubomir Ivanov said.

"We have lost the direct channels of information from Iraq because we have pulled out our embassy officers from that country. We are now trying to obtain information by cooperating with other services," Ivanov said.

[stayout]

Has anyone ever noticed that you never see Larry Tate and Tariq Aziz in the same room together?