'''Tarek Aziz''' (Mijaíl Yuhana) (b. Tel Keppe near Mosul, 1936) was the Foreign Minister (1983 – 1991) and Deputy Prime Minister (1979 – 2003) of [[Iraq]] during the government of [[Saddam Hussein]] and worked as a diplomat. Aziz is a Christian. In 1957, he incorporated to the Baaz party. Aziz studied English in the University of Baghdad. Tarek Aziz turned himself in to American forces in April 2003; at present he is in a prison in Camp Cropper in [[Baghdad]].
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''Iraq’s special criminal court on Monday (March 2, 2009) acquitted Tariq Aziz, the man who once served as the urbane, cigar-smoking public face of Saddam Hussein’s rule, in the first of three cases against him, delivering the most significant not guilty verdict in the prosecutions for crimes against humanity that occurred before the American invasion in 2003. '' [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/world/middleeast/03iraq.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=tariq%20aziz&st=cse]
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Aziz means ''Glorious Past'', in [[Arab]].
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== See also ==
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*[[Gulf War]]
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*[[Basra]]
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== External links ==
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*[http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=9482 Tarek Aziz’s Son Fights for His Release.]
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*[http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=10318812 DEATH PENALTY. PANNELLA- DON'T FORGET TAREK AZIZ.]