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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 12 > Former aide to Saddam Hussein gets 15-year sentence in deaths

Former aide to Saddam Hussein gets 15-year sentence in deaths

Court also sentences ‘Chemical Ali,’ other former Iraqi officials

By Raheem Salman / The Bulletin
March 12, 2009

BAGHDAD — Tariq Aziz, who once represented Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to the world, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for his involvement in the 1992 killing of 42 merchants accused of price-fixing.

The court found Aziz guilty of premeditated murder and crimes against....

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