In Memory Of An Old Friend ‘My Last Interview With Tariq Aziz In Khadamiya Prison, Baghdad, September 2012’ – Maria Wera Cedrell Maria Credrell
Tariq Aziz, 77, shuffles into view and sinks into a wooden chair in a prison corridor. The man who once bestrode the world stage puffing Cohiba cigars and tippling whiskey with world leaders, smilingly justifying each and every act of aggression, or evasion, by his boss and good friend Saddam Hussein, is a hunched and shrunken shadow of his former self.