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Andrei Posted 21 years ago
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Deed poll
One of Saddam Hussein's most obsequious henchmen, who named his son after the Iraqi tyrant, has now urged him to change his name by deed poll.
Tariq Aziz, the former Iraqi deputy prime minister, asked his youngest son to change his name from Saddam to Zuheir in letters passed on by his American jailers.
Aziz, who has been held since he surrendered in April, is in contact with his children via the Red Cross, his eldest son Zeiyad Aziz told the London-based daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat.
He said his father made the appeal last summer to Saddam Aziz, 20, a student at Amman University. The suggested name Zuheir is Arabic for jolly. Some time after the original appeal, in a hand-written letter dated Oct 13, Aziz referred to his youngest son for the first time as Zuheir.
The name-changing habit is familiar to the Aziz household. As a young man Tariq changed his name from the too-obviously Christian Michael Yuhanna.
What is deed poll?
Tariq Aziz, the former Iraqi deputy prime minister, asked his youngest son to change his name from Saddam to Zuheir in letters passed on by his American jailers.
Aziz, who has been held since he surrendered in April, is in contact with his children via the Red Cross, his eldest son Zeiyad Aziz told the London-based daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat.
He said his father made the appeal last summer to Saddam Aziz, 20, a student at Amman University. The suggested name Zuheir is Arabic for jolly. Some time after the original appeal, in a hand-written letter dated Oct 13, Aziz referred to his youngest son for the first time as Zuheir.
The name-changing habit is familiar to the Aziz household. As a young man Tariq changed his name from the too-obviously Christian Michael Yuhanna.
What is deed poll?
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deed poll: a deed made and executed by one party only, esp. to change one's name (the paper being polled or cut even, not indented) So says my dictionary. [:^)]
- deed poll: a deed made and executed by one party only, esp.
- to change one's name (the paper being polled or cut even, not indented) So says my dictionary.
- [:^)]
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deed poll: a deed made and executed by one party only, esp. to change one's name (the paper being polled or cut even, not indented)
So says my dictionary. [:^)]
So says my dictionary. [:^)]
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