Supporters of Tariq Aziz, the only Christian in Saddam Hussein's inner circle, hold the Iraqi flag and portraits of him outside the Arab Medical Center, where his body was brought from Iraq, in Amman, Jordan, early Saturday, June 13, 2015. Aziz died June 5 at age 79.
He had been in prison in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and suffered a series of strokes. He faced execution for his role in a government that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Jordan's government agreed to a request by Aziz's family to bury him in Jordan.
Tariq Aziz was laid to rest Saturday after a ceremony in his honor at a church in the Jordanian capital, Amman, eight days after the debonair Iraqi diplomat died in prison of a heart attack.
Hundreds of Iraqis and Jordanians attended the church services of Aziz, the only Christian in Saddam Hussein's inner circle, at St. Mary of Nazareth church in Amman. "You had frightened your enemies when you were free, and you had frightened them even after your soul left your body which had suffered from the prison's darkness," said Aziz's daughter, Zeinab, speaking at the ceremony.
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