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Aziz blames bloody campaign to suppress the Shias on Saddam By Our Foreign Staff (Filed: 28/06/2005) Tariq Aziz, the former Iraqi politician who was one of Saddam Hussein's closest associates, blames the bloody suppression of a Shia uprising on his former boss in a video released yesterday. The footage, given out by the tribunal prosecuting members of the deposed regime, is likely to demoralise Saddam loyalists involved in the Iraqi insurgency because it contradicts claims by Aziz's lawyer that he would never betray Saddam. 68-year-old Tariq Aziz [right] appears before the special tribunal Under questioning from an investigative judge six...

TWENTY-MINUTE VIDEO CLIP available for viewing at website. News that Ahmed Chalabi helped compile the oil for food kickback list has led to questions about its reliability. Now, a high profile anti-war protestor has admitted he was offered oil vouchers by Tariq Aziz. When the oil for food programme was established, it was meant to help the Iraqi people. But the main benefactors seem to have been friends of Saddam’s regime. “The Iraqi Government wanted to curry favour with those individuals and gave them oil at advantageous prices,” claims Claude Hankes-Drielsam, advisor to the Iraqi Governing Council. They were then...