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Tareq Aziz suffers stroke
Posted on ยป Monday, January 18, 2010
BAGHDAD: Tareq Aziz, a former deputy prime minister who was the public
face of Saddam Hussein's regime, suffered a blood clot in the brain and was
moved from prison to an American military hospital, his son said yesterday.
The US military said Aziz was taken to an American military hospital in
Baghdad on Thursday for examination but would not say why due to medical
privacy rules. "His condition is improving and he is still being closely
monitored," Lieutenant Colonel Pat Johnson said in a statement.
Aziz, 74, rose to prominence around the time of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
and the 1991 Gulf War when he was Saddam's foreign minister.
