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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.