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June 10, 2015

Chaldean Tariq Aziz, top official in Saddam's regime, dead

Iraq's former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz appears before an Iraqi tribunal in Baghdad in 2004. Aziz, 79, died of a heart attack June 5.

WASHINGTON - Tariq Aziz, a Chaldean Catholic who represented Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's government on the world stage as foreign minister and deputy prime minister, died June 5 after suffering a heart attack.

Published in International