Rumors for Tariq Aziz Defection Checked

Politics | March 19, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00

British Foreign Office investigated rumours Wednesday that Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz had defected to the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, AP reported.

A Junior Foreign Office Minister Mike O'Brien confirmed that the government investigates the unofficial information.

Sources in Washington flatly disproved the rumors.
The KDP is known to have close ties to the Baghdad regime.
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