Tariq Aziz, the Eight of Spades, has died in an Iraqi hospital. He was 79.
The smooth, debonair diplomat Aziz was the international face of Saddam’s regime, and the only Christian; he joined the Ba’ath Party in 1957 to help Saddam overthrow the British-installed monarchy. He was sentenced to Death by Hanging in 2010 for his role in the regime, but was spared by Iraq’s president, Jalal Talabani, a result of the Vatican’s appeal for mercy.
To be honest, I’m not quite sure whether I should feel closure that a member of Saddam’s inner cabal has left us, or whether sadness is in order, due to his religious upbringing…also if he had reconciled with God Almighty (and NOT Allah!) first.
In any case, he is gone. Pray for his family, which apparently is still Christian.
Posts Tagged ‘Baath Party’
Voice of Saddam, Tariq Aziz, Dead at 79
by Deplorable Macker ( 132 Comments › )Filed under History, Iraq at June 6th, 2015 - 6:00 pm
ISIS Executes Saddam Judge
by Deplorable Macker ( 1 Comment › )Filed under Al Qaeda, Headlines, Islam, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic Terrorism at June 22nd, 2014 - 5:28 pm
The following Google Translation is courtesy of Gateway Pundit:
There were reports of the execution of Iraqi judge, Raouf Abdel-Rahman, who sentenced Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to death, according to confirmed the pages on the social networking site, without official confirmation from the Iraqi government.
The pages on social networking sites, including Page MP Jordanian Khalil Attieh on the site “Facebook” to “revolutionaries Iraqis arrested him and sentenced him to death in retaliation for the death of the martyr Saddam Hussein,” he said, adding that Rauf tried to escape from Baghdad after wearing uniforms dancers. She page Izzat al-Douri, vice-president Saddam Hussein, the “Facebook” to the rebels Iraqis were able to arrest the Kurdish judge Rauf Rashid, who issued a death sentence against the former Iraqi leader, which is currently in the “grip of the soldiers of the Islamic State and the men of the Baath Party.”
I suppose that somewhere in Hell, Saddam and his two sons are welcoming the judge to the Infernal Realm in the most hideous way imaginable…and then some.
Al-Nusra Front and ISIS take Baath Party HQ in DeirEzzor
by Phantom Ace ( 3 Comments › )Filed under Al Qaeda, Headlines, Syria at August 11th, 2013 - 10:39 pm
After the fall of Qusayr, the media was claiming that Assad was winning. I have been on this blog calling that out as propaganda. While Assad with the help of Hezbollah helped take some isolated rebel pockets in Homs, province, the conflict was mostly a stalemate. However, the past few weeks, the rebels are now gaining the upper hand in parts of Syria. After a year of stalemate in the Eastern City of DeirEzzor, al-Nusra Front with the help of al-Qaeda foreign fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have broken through Government defenses. The Baath Party HQ has fallen to al-Nusra.
This conflict is not ending anytime soon.
Here is an interesting read about the tensions between al-Nusra Front and ISIS.
Tensions between al-Qaeda’s two branches fighting in Syria – Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Nusra Front – are reaching a breaking point, despite efforts to resolve the dispute from the organization’s international leadership.
Despite their best attempts to keep the ongoing dispute between ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his Nusra counterpart, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, contained at the leadership level, al-Qaeda’s internal war in Syria is increasingly becoming public.
But did not Obama said al-Qaeda is on the run?
