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Former Iraqi deputy PM Tareq Aziz suffered
heart attack
11.12.2007
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Tariq
Aziz could face charges of mass murder, allegedly
committed in 1979 and 1991, and would face the death
penalty if convicted.
December
11, 2007
AMMAN,-- Former Iraqi deputy prime
minister Tariq Aziz suffered a heart attack last
week in a US military prison in Iraq, his son said
on Tuesday.
"My father has not been hospitalised when he had a
heart attack last week, and when he called us on
Wednesday, we could hardly understand him," Ziad
Aziz told AFP in a telephone interview.
"I hold the authorities at the prison responsible
for his health condition, particularly that they
have not charged him with any crime."
Aziz, 71, who also served as foreign minister under
the regime of late dictator Saddam Hussein, is being
detained at a camp outside Baghdad on suspicion of
crimes against humanity.
His son said his father is allowed 35 minutes a
month to telephone his family.
"More than a month ago, I sent my father winter
clothes through the Red Cross after he told me that
he was dying of cold, but he did not get them," said
Aziz, who has lived in Jordan with his family since
April 2003. |
Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz, the
former bloody dictator Saddam Hussein's top aide
Former dictator Saddam Hussein (L) and Tariq Aziz in
2003. |
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"One of his lawyers in Baghdad recently bought him
some clothes, but his wardens refuse to deliver them
to him."
He added that he expects a phone call from his
father on Wednesday to check on his health
condition.
In July, the former Iraqi official collapsed in his
prison, after the US military said he underwent
medical tests for suffering a fall while walking at
a US prison camp.
Aziz turned himself in to US forces in April 2003,
one month after they overthrew Saddam.
He could face charges of mass murder, allegedly
committed in 1979 and 1991, and would face the death
penalty if convicted. But he has denied any
involvement, and his lawyers say he has never been
formally charged.
AFP
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