Most of the coverage of the 3 a.m. hanging of Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraq's former vice president, fails to mention that he was a Kurd. That would spoil the current narrative in the media (and from many so-called Iraq experts) that the Baath party was 100 per cent Sunni Arab. Tariq Aziz, of course, the voluble foreign minister and a key insider in Saddam's regime, wasn't even a Muslim, but a Christian. True, during Saddam's 35-year rule, the leadership was increasingly concentrated among the family and friends of Saddam and his Tikriti allies. But like most stories, it's a lot more complicated than that.