Captain Ed is reporting that Saddams right hand man, his brother in arms, his compadre has decided to start squealing like a pig. MSNBC has a article out that sounds like they can’t shut the guy up:
“David Kay ? a former U.S. adviser in Iraq ? spent months questioning Aziz and others. He says Aziz quickly turned on Saddam and could testify at any trial.
“He talks about direct orders to murder, to assassinate, to kill,” says Kay.
NBC News has learned U.N. investigators probing corruption in the U.N. oil for food program were scheduled to question Aziz last week. That session was delayed for security reasons.
The U.N. investigation ? led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker ? is looking into Saddam’s alleged diversion of oil money that was supposed to go for food to U.N. officials and politicians in key countries.
U.S. officials say Aziz already has implicated the French and others, claiming payoffs were made with the understanding that recipients would support Iraq on key matters before the U.N.
“He pointed to specific individuals in Russia and France, in the United States ? that received favorable treatment,” says David Kay.
Now, sources tell NBC News that Aziz has indicated he’s finally ready to talk about alleged bribes to U.N. officials. U.N. Investigators refuse to comment.
Former Secretary of State James Baker says Aziz has an incentive to be helpful to the U.S.
“He may very well be inclined to cooperate with us thinking that he could receive some sort of leniency or get a better deal,” says Baker.
Once Saddam’s tireless defender, Aziz is now singing a very different tune, to please his new keeper.”
What is also very welcome is that he is singing about the corruption in the UN, hopefully he is naming names. If that’s the case then this could get very interesting.
More news about ole Tariq, apparently he is trying to get the Vatican to represent him during the upcoming war crimes trial:
“Saddam Hussein’s former foreign minister and right-hand man, Tariq Aziz, has persuaded sympathizers in the Vatican to arrange free legal advice for his defense against war crimes.
Mr. Aziz, a practicing Christian who acted as foreign spokesman for the Iraqi dictator, secured the services of Italian lawyers after contacting a group of Roman Catholic priests and bishops.
He wrote to his family from jail in Baghdad, urging them to contact the Rev. Jean-Marie Benjamin, a priest who previously had brokered a meeting between Mr. Aziz and Pope John Paul II before the war last year.
Father Benjamin, who has said he is acting with the Vatican’s unofficial approval, is now orchestrating religious and legal support for Mr. Aziz.
The campaign also has the backing of Monsignor Emmanuel Delly, the patriarch of Baghdad and spiritual leader of the country’s 500,000 Chaldean Christians, including Mr. Aziz.
Supporters of Mr. Aziz say he was only a diplomat, but British and American officials say his role as apologist for Saddam’s regime makes him culpable.”
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