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Article: Former Saddam's aide Aziz found no guilty over killing of Shiites in 1999: chief judge
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- March 2, 2009
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Former Saddam's aide Aziz found no guilty over killing of Shiites
in 1999: chief judge Former Saddam's aide Aziz found no guilty over
killing of Shiites in 1999: chief judge
BAGHDAD, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi High Criminal Court
announced Monday that Saddam Hussein's former deputy prime minister
Tariq Aziz was found no guilty over the case of killing Shiite
Muslims in 1999.
Chief Judge Mohammed Ureibi announced in the today's session that
Aziz and three others of Saddam's senior officials were found no
guilty in the 1999 killing of the Shiites who protested in Baghdad
and Amarah following the alleged assassination of Grand Ayatollah
Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, father of anti-American ...