US denies reports on Tareq Aziz's death in custody
AFP, Baghdad
Tareq Aziz, the former Iraqi deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein, is alive, the US military in Iraq said yesterday, denying television reports that he had died in custody. "I can confirm that Tareq Aziz is alive, there is no change in his status and he is in our custody," said a spokesman for the US-led prisons authority in Iraq, Barry Johnson. "He was alive five minutes ago," he told AFP at about 3:10 pm (1210 GMT). Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television said that Aziz had died in custody, quoting sources in the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq.
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