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  • Former Iraqi President Dies

    08/24/2007 7:16:55 AM PDT · by Borges · 3 replies · 193+ views
    ABC ^ | SHAFIKA MATTAR
    Former Iraqi President Abdel-Rahman Aref, overthrown more than 35 years ago in a coup that brought Saddam Hussein's Baath party to power, died in Amman early Friday at the age of 91, an Iraqi diplomat in Jordan said. Aref died at the King Hussein Medical Center in the Jordanian capital at dawn, Iraqi charge d'affaires in Amman, Tahseen Alwan Ina, told The Associated Press. Iraq Jordan Saddam Hussein Baath Party Aref's family, most of whom live in Jordan, had called to inform him of the death, Ina said. The diplomat had no details on Aref's health or circumstances of his...