FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 13, 1997, file photo, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, right, is interviewed by Larry King on Larry King Live in New York. Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in hospital in southern Iraq. He was 79. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)