Saddam loyalists on trial for 1994 slaying of Iraqi dissident
By APSunday, October 4, 2009
Saddam officials on trial for dissident slaying
BAGHDAD — Former foreign minister Tariq Aziz and seven other members of Saddam Hussein’s regime are facing charges of planning the slaying of an Iraqi opposition leader in Beirut in 1994.
The trial that opened Sunday also includes Iraq’s former intelligence chief and other top officials in Saddam’s government. They are accused of plotting the killing of Talib al-Suhail in Lebanon’s capital.
Aziz was the international face of Saddam’s regime for years. He already has been convicted and sentenced to prison terms in the killings of Iraqi merchants and the forced displacement of Kurds in northern Iraq.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Former foreign minister Tariq Aziz and seven other members of Saddam Hussein’s regime are facing charges of planning the slaying of an Iraqi opposition leader in Beirut in 1994.
The trial that opened Sunday also includes Iraq’s former intelligence chief and other top officials in Saddam’s government. They are accused of plotting the killing of Tabib al-Suhail in Lebanon’s capital.
Aziz was the international face of Saddam’s regime for years. He already has been convicted and sentenced to prison terms in the killings of Iraqi merchants and the forced displacement of Kurds in northern Iraq.
(This version CORRECTS spelling of dissident’s first name.)
