In other Iraq news, two top officials under the Saddam Hussein regime have been sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Former foreign minister Tariq Aziz and presidential adviser Ali Hassan al-Majid were convicted of a crime against humanity for their alleged roles in the 1992 killings of forty-two merchants. Fluent in English, Aziz was known as the international face of Hussein’s government prior to the US invasion. He is widely believed to have wielded little influence in Hussein’s government.