Aziz's lawyer to London mayor in probe

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

AMMAN (AFP) — The lawyer for Tareq Aziz on Wednesday offered to support London Mayor Boris Johnson who is being probed for possession of a cigar case belonging to Iraq's former deputy prime minister.

"I am ready to contact Johnson, stand by him and provide all necessary support in this ridiculous investigation," Badie Izzat Aref told AFP from the Jordanian capital Amman.

"Johnson did not steal or commit any crime, he simply took a souvenir. He has always respected Tareq Aziz, who wishes Johnson had taken other valuable things, like his notebook, which have been seized by the invaders."

Johnson, a 43-year-old former journalist, found the red leather cigar case among the debris of Aziz's home in Baghdad while visiting Iraq as a reporter after the US-led...