Aziz to seek death pardon

SADDAM Hussein’s henchman Tariq Aziz is to ask for an Iraqi presidential pardon from his death sentence for persecuting opponents.

His lawyer, Giovanni Di Stefano, said the pardon request was instead of appealing the sentence, handed down last month.

It is a risky legal move, considering Iraqi president Jalal Talabani has granted few, if any, pardons in his more than five-year tenure and could be prevented from doing so in this case.