AMMAN — The body of Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former top aide who died last week in prison in Iraq, went missing on Thursday after it was snatched in Baghdad while en route to Jordan for burial, Aziz's daughter said. Aziz's daughter Zeinab said she was told by her mother — who was in Iraq and waited to accompany the casket to Jordan — that his body went missing at the Baghdad International Airport. No further details were immediately known. A Royal Jordanian official confirmed that the last flight left Baghdad on Thursday without Aziz's casket. Calls to the Iraqi government for comment or information were not immediately returned. Aziz died last Friday in Nasiriyah, where he was imprisoned awaiting execution. Aziz was the highest-ranking Christian in Saddam's regime and was the international face of the Baath Party in Iraq. He was sentenced in October 2010 to hang for persecuting members of the Shiite religious parties. — AP
