Tariq Aziz was today given a further 10-year jail sentence, adding to the 15-year term he is already serving and a death sentence for crimes he committed as Saddam Hussein's right-hand man.
However, Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, again appeared to back a push for clemency, repeating that he would not sign a warrant condemning Aziz.
Aziz, 74, a former Ba'athist henchman who is now in failing health, has attracted support from unlikely quarters as the ghosts of Saddam's 30-year rule are exorcised in a series of trials in Baghdad. The Guardian
