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To: Challo Jeregy who wrote (33267)	3/19/2003 12:56:16 PM
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DJ Iraqi TV/Aziz -3: Sees No Chance For Political Solution "This is one of the easiest rumors to deny," Aziz said. "But we will expect a lot of rumors in the coming days and months and I would like to warn you against such cheap psychological warfare. Don't believe them when they propagate news like this about anybody in the Iraqi leadership." Asked to comment on the political situation, Aziz said, "I don't think there is any chance for a political solution - that's abundantly clear. But it is clear that the majority of the international community and (U.N) Security Council confirm that what America is doing is a breach of international law and a breach of the charter of the U.N. and in fact... it is colonizing aggression - imperialistic and unjust - and it is not an act of peace." "I am carrying my pistol to confirm to you that we are ready to fight the aggressors," Aziz also said. "American soldiers are nothing but mercenaries and they will be defeated." The broadcast was carried with simultaneous translation into English. Britain's Foreign Office had said earlier it was investigating the rumors of Aziz's departure from Baghdad, which emerged Wednesday from the northern Kurdish autonomous region in Iraq. Asked earlier to confirm the rumors, Nabez Rashid Ahmad, the deputy director for the Kurdish Democratic Party's Sulaymaniyah branch, said "he's in KDP-controlled land." Ismail Sayer, an Iraqi opposition figure in the Democratic Platform of Iraq, also said in a statement faxed from Sofia, Bulgaria, that Aziz had given himself up. "Tariq Aziz has escaped from Baghdad to the north region," Sayer said in a statement. Aziz is the only Christian in Iraqi leadership and one of Iraq's best-known voices to world. He was born in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and is thought to have close ties to the area. (END) Dow Jones Newswires 03-19-03 1254ET