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Tarek Aziz "fails" and will not live more than one month - the former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz, held by the American army, "fails" and will not live more than one month because of a "cerebral embolism and cardiac diseases", affirms its lawyer in public statements Thursday by Arab daily newspaper Al-Hayat. According to Me Badie Arif Ezzat, Tarek Aziz is held in a room "reserved for the dogs". Tarek Aziz "fails and I do not expect that it lives more than one month" because of the continuations of a "cerebral embolism and diseases cardiac", it declared....

Nigergate: The shadow of the French inspector After yesterday’s posting, a close look at Ambassador Wilson, today’s the turn of Mr Jacques Baute. The following article raises some incredible questions and reveals some amazing facts. Mr Baute, a Frenchman, seemed to know all about the the Niger forgeries and kept very quiet about them. The result: the Bush administration was ridiculed. The day after Baute’s organisation, the International Atomic Energy Agency, declared the documents to be forgeries the French Government made a startling announcement..... The Bush administration was decieved by it’s presumed allies and the blame was placed on the...

Iraq: Tarek Aziz lunatic the rumours on his defection The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz contradicted in person Wednesday evening the rumours according to which it would have made defection and affirmed that those aimed at "sapping the moral one" of the people irakien."Ces rumours (on my defection) lie within the scope of the psychological warfare carried out by the United States (...) to sap the moral one of the Iraqi people ", has it says to journalists who asked him to react to these rumours.

PARIS, Nov. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- The French Foreign Ministry denied on Saturday reports saying that President Jacques Chirac had sent a secret envoy on a mission to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "he French authorities categorically deny the reports of the daily Ashraq al-Awsat. No French envoy charged with such a mission to Saddam Hussein has gone to Iraq," the ministry said in a statement. Asharq al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned, London-based daily, reported Saturday that an envoy of Chirac has been "regularly visiting Iraqfor some time" to urge Saddam to soften his domestic and foreign policies and consequently avert United States military...

Iraq will not attack other countries in the event of American attack (Aziz) Wednesday October 02, 2002 - 8h27 GMT ANKARA, Oct. 2 (AFP) - Iraq will not attack other countries of the régon in the event of American attack, affirmed Wednesday the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz at the time of a press conference in Ankara. "We will not exert reprisals against anyone in the area, except against the American attacker which violates our territory," Mr. Aziz affirmed. Such an attack would carry however wrong to the relations between Iraq and Turkey, it added, affirming: "we should...

BAGHDAD, Sept 28 (AFP) - The United States will suffer "losses they have never sustained for decades", if Iraq is attacked, Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz warned Saturday. "Iraq will fight," Aziz vowed. "The assault against Iraq will not be a cakewalk for the Americans but a fierce war during which the United States will suffer losses they have never sustained for decades," he said. Israel will take advantage of an "American attack against Iraq to carry out its scheme to transfer Palestinians," out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Aziz predicted. "During the attack (Israel Prime Minister...

Baghdad affirms to have withdrawn in the United States the pretext of a war Tuesday September 17, 2002 - 6h56 GMT BAGHDAD, 17 seven (AFP) - the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz affirmed Tuesday that Iraq had withdrawn in the United States the pretext of a war, by accepting the return of the inspectors of UNO in disarmament. "the pretext used to launch an aggression was completely put in failure", declared Mr. Aziz with the opening of an international conference of support for a lifting of the international embargo. "They (Americans) thought that Iraq was not going to...