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| | TAP: Vol 15, Iss. 3. Democracy How?. Robert Collier. |
 | | Baathists insist that the United Nations is not the enemy, despite the terrorist bombings in August and September that caused it to flee the country. | | | Many Baathists whom I interviewed took pains to explain that the guerrillas are not terrorists and do not seek the return of Saddam Hussein to power. | | | But these Baathists only grudgingly admitted the obvious -- that there are indeed real extremists among the resistance, including foreign jihadis who may continue using terrorist attacks under any circumstances. |
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| | Analysis: Syria's Baathists' new image - (United Press International) |
| | Although Syrian Baathists downplay the effect of Baath's fall in Iraq, that development has become a challenge to the socialist and nationalist doctrine of the party in Syria, the last bastion of rigid Arab nationalism. | | | The party, which took power in a 1963 coup, was established in 1947 and appears to have been affected by the ouster of rival Baathists in Iraq at the hand of a U.S.-led coalition last April. | | | In Syria, he said, the Arab national ideology "is requested by the majority of the Arab peoples between the Gulf and the Ocean." The party regards the Arab world as stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| | United Press International - International(p) - U.S. to rehire Iraqi Baathists |
| | Baathists who may have been involved in atrocities during Saddam's rule will not be included, he said. | | | Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress and a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, has been opposed to Baathists and may object to their presence in the government. | | | Senor said the policy was not a change, adding it was consistent with the pledge to root out Baathists from the Iraqi hierarchy. |
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| | The Militant - December 14, 2004 -- U.S. troops press assault on Baathists |
| | Baathists there launched widespread attacks last month in an attempt to aid their brothers in Fallujah. | | | Despite the devastation, there was little outcry against the assault among Iraqis because of the widespread hatred among a majority of Shiites and Kurds toward the party-police state run by the Baathist regime for decades. | | | One indication of this is an audiotape, the text of which has been posted on the Internet, which reportedly condemns Islamic scholars for their failure to support the militias in Fallujah. |
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| | IRAQ: Debaathification - Council on Foreign Relations |
| | Baathists "who do not have blood on their hands," and who were "innocent and competent" could play a role in Iraq's reconstruction, then-coalition spokesman Dan Senor announced on April 24, 2004. | | | Purge supporters argue that a stable Iraq cannot be built unless high-ranking Baathists are held accountable for the oppression of millions of Iraqis. | | | Mouwafak al-Rubaie, a newly elected UIA delegate, said February 13 that the new government's top priority should be to protect and provide for former victims of Saddam Hussein. |
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| | Search: Baathists - FOX News |
| | Baathists have been dominant in Iraq since 1963. | | | This political party is a nationalist anti-communist group which calls for renewing the... | | | Baathists CIA offers no comment on Iraq coup allegations by David Morgan |
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| | Many Baathists Banned From Iraq Government |
| | Former Baathists are also fueling crime and anti-American unrest in Iraq while ``trying to reorganize and reconstruct'' the party, the official said. | | | The reconstruction official said exceptions would be made in the winnowing process and also said all but 2,000 of the thousands of Baathists in question had melted away and were not angling for new government jobs. | | | The ORHA official said Iraq's American overseers would comb through the deposed regime's records, interview suspected Baathists' co-workers and seek testimony to make sure the government is free of the party's influence. |
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| | Joel Mowbray on Baathists & Iraq on National Review Online |
| | There is strong evidence to suggest that the Baathists are, in fact, behind much of the unrest in Iraq that has been broadcast to the rest of the world. | | | According to several administration officials, there is evidence implicating Baathist support for organized chaos, particularly in the middle- and upper-middle-class neighborhoods of Baghdad &; home to the most-influential Iraqis. | | | For Bremer to be successful — that is, bringing meaningful and lasting freedom to Iraq &; he must adopt a zero-tolerance policy towards Baathists. |
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| | Chalabi Compares U.S. Policy on Baathists with Nazis |
| | Naseer al-Chaderji said there were former Baathists who had joined the party without believing in its ideology, but such people would have to be chosen by Iraqis who best know their record if they were to serve in the new government. | | | BAGHDAD - A U.S. policy shift that may allow former Baathists join a new Iraqi government was akin to putting back Nazis in charge of Germany, Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi said on Friday. | | | Like the Nazis, the Baath was a chauvinist and racist organization," said Adnan al-Assadi, an official of the Dawa Party which is represented on the council. |
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| | Syria Could Do More to Halt Activities of Iraqi Baathists: Armitage |
| | Still, it remains unclear to what extent some of the Iraqi Baathists are involved in the insurgency and what level of assistance is being provided by elements in the Syrian regime. | | | Baathists operating from Syria who represent a "real danger" to the Syrian government. | | | Allawi and other Iraqis interviewed say they believe the Syrian government does not facilitate the activities of the Iraqi Baathists, instead blaming individual Syrian Baathists who share an ideological affinity with their Iraqi counterparts. |
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| | IBN_ALRAFIDAIN: Rambling Post (5) |
| | In the year 1966 Arif was killed in a helicopter accident which claimed later to be schemed by the baathists. | | | Arif, the Iraqi president, did not have a decisive policy & could not resist the baathists' desire, since it was them who brought him to power. | | | On the 8th of March 1963 the baathists seized power in Syria through a military coup. |
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| | Iraqis will finish off the Baath Party Samizdata.net |
| | In 1999, after he participated in the murder of three Baathist officials, the mukhabarat threw him into prison, where he says he was whipped and beaten and tortured with electric shocks to his penis. | | | The foreign terrorists from Syria, Nigeria or wherever simply cannot function within Iraq without support from the Baathist remnants, who are the key. | | | Released in a general amnesty Saddam granted just before the war, Jasim believes that his uncle sold him out to the authorities and intends to kill him too. |
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| | AraBlog reBlog: Bring Back the Baathists |
| | Baathists who are financing the terrorists from Syria should be allowed to return to Iraq and participate in the political process. | | | Nevertheless, while negotiating with the Baathists, they should be told that Saddamism will not be accepted. | | | The US should send CIA agents to forge deals with these people and I don't believe it would be very hard to convince them to come back. |
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| | Baathists' return infuriates Shias -DAWN - International; 01 May, 2004 |
| | They warned that the influence that Ayatollah Sistani had won for Iraq's long-oppressed majority since Saddam's ouster was now being threatened by the actions of Sadr and cited the return of Baathists as an example. | | | All of the men insisted they had no time for Sadr, who has been holed up in Najaf for almost a month now, surrounded by members of his Mehdi Army militia. | | | "The latest events have not been to our advantage as they gave the Americans the excuse to conclude that they could only count on Baathists to bring order to Iraq," said Amer al Najafi, 36, referring to members of the former ruling party of ousted president Saddam Hussein. |
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| | The Ledger: Lakeland, Polk County, Florida |
| | Recent arrests of Iraqi security officials by the American military point to another danger: former Baathists who are readmitted to the government without enough precautions can aid the insurgency from within. | | | Lami said officials from the prime minister's office or from the Iraqi National Accord, a political party led by Dr. Allawi that is largely made up of former Baathists, have increasingly subverted the commission's dismissal decisions, especially in key security positions. | | | That order said the commission would be disbanded when the interim Iraqi government established a new organization to oversee the purging of Baathists. |
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| | Rebels Aided By Allies in Syria, U.S. Says (washingtonpost.com) |
| | He said his government "categorically" denies that Iraqi Baathists are taking refuge in his country. | | | In some cases, evidence suggests that these Baathists are managing operations in Iraq from a distance, the officials said. | | | Like other officials interviewed for this article, he declined to be identified by name or position because of the sensitivity of his specialty. |
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| | Baathists, Once Reviled, Prove Difficult to Remove |
| | Bremer and the Iraqi Governing Council did decree that Baathists in the top three ranks of the party, an estimated 120,000 people, be removed from their government jobs. | | | In some provinces where the party's roots were deep, high-ranking party members kept their government jobs because local officials said they were afraid to make changes. | | | Bremer and the council in their efforts to rid Iraq of its old security apparatus, centered on the army, the secret police and the Information Ministry. |
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| | Baathists are thriving in secret |
| | The Baathists "have their weapons and they have their money, and they are still in Iraq," Kadhim said. | | | The Iraqi government is struggling to track their activities, he said, because of the U.S.-led dismantling of the old intelligence apparatus and the fact that former Baathists are much better trained and organized than the Iraqi government's fledgling agents. | | | Within a year after the former regime fell, the Baath Party was restructured as an umbrella organization for opposition groups that run the gamut from anti-occupation nationalists to Muslim extremists, said Sabah Kadhim, spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry. |
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| | Man Who May Lead Iraq Eyes Ex-Baathists |
| | Jafari said that "the new appointments and those who were dismissed will be looked over" on the same basis: Those who committed crimes would be barred, those who did not would be allowed to keep their jobs. | | | "There are no disagreements concerning the Baathists who committed crimes and stole the money of the people, and also who had high ranks in the state," he said. | | | In an interview, Jafari said he was committed to ridding the government of anyone who profited as a Baath official or carried out the oppressive policies of a party that he said "committed crimes against the Iraqis more than what Hitler or Mussolini did." |
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| | The Daily Star - Politics - Zarqawi rallies Iraqi rebels thanks to Al-Qaeda and the U.S. |
| | Kamal added: "They (the Baathists) are working with the Islamists under joint leadership to gather intelligence and wage operations," he said. | | | "Baathists are no longer supported by the people in Iraq," said the Interior Ministry's intelligence chief Major General Hussein Kamal. | | | Kamal said: "No operation carried out by the Baathists has been claimed in the name of the Baath party. |
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| | Al-Qaida - definition of Al-Qaida in Encyclopedia |
| | With the subsequent American attack on Iraq, the organization's interests became split between outrage with America's meddling in the region and hatred of Saddam Hussein's secular government, as well as expression of concern for the suffering that Islamic people in Iraq were undergoing because of both. | | | Bin Laden referred, in his speeches and recorded/written announcements, to Hussein (and the Baathists) as evil, a demon or devil-worshipper, calling for his overthrow by the people of Iraq. | | | Organizations which would later come to identify with Al Qaeda were set up in northeastern Iraq, in areas controlled by the anti-Saddam Kurds and the US. |
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| | The Militant - December 7, 2004 -- U.S. troops consolidate victory in Fallujah |
| | About 25 suspected Baathists were killed in a firefight at one of the houses the Marines returned to. | | | They are also publicizing their findings in the city that point to the fact that Fallujah was the center of Baathist resistance. | | | Many residents of Sadr City expressed the widespread hatred across Iraq against the Baathists, who overwhelmingly came from the Sunni minority, enjoyed vast privileges under the Hussein regime, and ruled with naked brutality. |
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| | CIA BACKED-COUPS PUT BAATH PARTY IN POWER IN IRAQ |
| | Several authors believe that Saddam was helping the CIA and the Baathists coordinate a coup. | | | There can be no doubt that the CIA and Baathists shared common aims - and the evidence seems pretty conclusive that the CIA were involved in the 1963 and 1968 coups. | | | This time Qassim was killed him, but the Baathists held power only briefly, setting off a period of coups more instability in Iraq. |
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| | Bush says Baathists and foreign terrorists behind recent attacks |
| | WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he believes Baathists and foreign terrorists are behind the recent wave of bombings that have struck Iraq. | | | The US president spoke shortly after a pickup truck exploded in Fallujah, Iraq, Tuesday killing at least six people, and one day after a wave of car bombs killed some 43 people in the Iraqi capital. | | | Bush says Baathists and foreign terrorists behind recent attacks |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Iraq's New Leaders Ease Purge of Baathists |
| | The Iraqi Baath party became dominated by Saddam's fellow Sunni Muslims and oversaw oppression of the Shi'ite majority, including the bloody suppression of an uprising in 1991. | | | In one of his last acts before leaving Iraq Monday, Bremer rescinded the de-Baathification order, whose workings were overseen by a commission of Iraqis. | | | The Iraqi branch seized power in 1968 and became dominated by Saddam and his Tikriti tribe. |
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| | For Kurdish leader, there can be no dialogue with Baathist ... :: www.rojname.com |
| | The Baathists operating in Iraq are not more than 3,000; counting their secret service, they amount to 7 or 10 thousand. | | | Beyond Islamist fundamentalists, who commit suicide attacks, the Baathist strategy is to destabilize the country to the core, so that people end up saying: “without you, Iraq can neither move forward nor find stability.” The Baathists want us to forget that they killed 4 million people under Saddam. | | | The Baathists are the last to want dialogue: what the world sees happening in Iraq today is only 1% of what happened previously. |
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| | Amir Taheri on Iraq on National Review Online |
| | Some pro-Saddam Baathists outside Iraq are already engaged in talks to switch to the rival branch of the party controlled by Syria. | | | To make matters worse the party has to finance the repatriation from Iraq of over 3,000 Jordanian and Palestinians students it had sponsored. | | | The Iraqi dictator financed hundreds of intellectuals, journalists, novelists, poets, academics, and supposedly independent politicians in virtually all Arab countries. |
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| | Civilian Violence in Iraq Up Sharply Since Hussein's Capture |
| | But the dynamic is also political, pitting embattled Baathists accustomed to suppressing Shiites against Shiites who aim to dominate their country's future. | | | He believes a faction or factions of Shiite Muslims, who were oppressed under Saddam Hussein's regime, are killing former members of Saddam's Baath Party, most of whom, like the deposed dictator, are Sunni Muslim. | | | In his neighborhood, al Baya, he said, assassins killed four or five Baathists in the past 10 days alone. |
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| | U.S. eases rules for ex-Baathists |
| | But he said former Baath Party members and military officers would be reintegrated only if they didn't have "Baathist blood on their hands." Senor said the prohibition against top party and government officials from the former regime would remain. | | | Ahmad Chalabi, a Shiite Governing Council member who's backed by officials in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office, said allowing Baathists into the government would be akin to letting Nazis join a German government. | | | Bremer announced that thousands of teachers whose appeals had been approved but who weren't allowed to return to work would get their jobs back. |
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| | washingtonpost.com: Iraqis Exact Revenge on Baathists |
| | But only in recent weeks did the tempo of attacks accelerate as Iraqis, frustrated with the slow progress of the court system and fearing that Baathists may be seeking to reorganize, have increasingly taken justice into their own hands, according to Iraqi security and political sources. | | | They said some families do not disclose that the victims were Baathists. | | | Taee, 59, a former local official in Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, had received an earlier written warning in September and menacing phone calls, his brothers recalled. |
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| | The New Yorker: Fact |
| | The Baathists came to power in 1963, in a coup that was followed by a bloodbath during which Baathists arrested, tortured, and killed their rivals. | | | Like so many Baathists I talked to, he also refused to acknowledge that simply reinstating the Party might be morally or politically unacceptable to Saddam’s victims and to the international community—that a regime that was little more than “Saddam Lite” might not be good enough. | | | By then, an assassination campaign had begun against former Baathists who were coöperating with the occupation, and also against some who weren’t. |
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| | US commander sees indications of links between Baathists, terrorists |
| | Abizaid would not comment on who might be behind the UN bombing, but said Baathists and other groups have turned to "terrorism" as the Iraqi governing council has become more assertive and US-led forces have scored successes against them. | | | But General John Abizaid, head of the Central Command which includes Iraq, insisted that "good, solid intelligence" -- not more US troops -- was needed to counter the threat, which was brought home by Tuesday's truck bombing that killed at least 23 people at UN headquarters in Baghdad. | | | Ansar al-Islam, a group believed to have loose ties to al-Qaeda, has migrated in increasing numbers from northern Iraq to Baghdad, he said. |
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| | Islam Online- News Section |
| | Asked if the purge of Baathists is a sort of a new wave of McCarthyism, Nafaa answered in positive, citing that U.S. authorities expect to question individuals about any Baath past, check with co-workers and consult whatever government records or public records that can be found. | | | According to the new U.S. policy, all Iraqis who work for the government will be required to sign "some form of denunciation or renunciation" of the Baath party. | | | Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah al-Ashaal said the ban on largely-numbered Baathists is a new attempt to “make the change in society as radical as possible”. |
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| | Baptists, Not Baathists |
| | As you may remember, Baathists are the former rulers of Iraq. | | | From its earliest development, the motivation behind Baathist political thought and its leading supporters was the need to reassert the Arab spirit. | | | Upon their return to Iraq in 1949, the three began the Iraqi Baathist Party. |
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| | Iraqi Prospect Organisation - News Analysis: November 19, 2004 |
| | Prior to the operation in Fallujah, it was generally believed that the majority of the insurgent leadership were foreign Arab Salafi extremists. | | | Therefore, the presumption that the insurgency is at its core made up of foreign Arab Salafi extremists cannot explain the discrepancy between the former Kurdish safe-haven and the rest of Iraq. | | | On the other hand, Baathists have no interest in being killed and every interest in defeating the new Iraqi government and wearing out the US-led coalition into withdrawal. |
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| | CBC News:Baathists banned from public office in new Iraq |
| | Investigators with the U.S. administration plan to comb through the records of the fallen regime and interview former co-workers of suspected Baathists to keep Saddam's supporters out of the government. | | | Baathists banned from public office in new Iraq | | | They also say some people are likely to be accused falsely by co-workers seeking revenge. |
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| | CBS News Operation Iraqi Freedom December 7, 2003 23:24:19 |
| | And people were alarmed when the Ba'athists were actually reinstated back into government,” says Shahristani, citing that a lot of ex-Baathists still hold positions in the police department. | | | “The expectations were that the Baathists would be immediately arrested and put on trial for their crimes against humanity, for their crimes against the Iraqi people. | | | “Some of these people, what they are really actually doing are recruiting the newly organized Baathist apparatus back into the force,” says Shahristani, who adds that the people are extremely concerned about this. |
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| | More Baathists in the news |
| | Syria, like Saddam's Iraq, is ruled by the Baathist party, an Arab fascist movement modeled after the European fascist parties of the 1930's. | | | After the assassination of former Lebanese prime-minister Rafik al-Hariri, the Lebanese are rising up against their Syrian occupiers. | | | It is a good sign that Arabs in Lebanon, and, hopefully, elsewhere, are turning against Syria and its ideology, another step after the fall of Saddam towards freedom in the Middle East. |
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| | Democracy Now! Candidates on Kurdish Electoral Slate Include Former Baathists |
| | Remember that 182,000 people were killed in the Anfal campaign, which was done by Saddam in the 1980's, including what happened in Hallabja and these people they have the blood of the Kurdish people on their hands. | | | Kurds demand that all Arabs brought to Kirkuk by Saddam leave the city and Arabs in Kirkuk say Kurds are now attempting their own campaign of ethnic cleansing. | | | So, those former Ba’athist people, they killed thousands of people. |
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| | ParaPundit: Revenge Killings Of Baathists In Iraq |
| | But others are simply killing Baathist icons or irksome party officials identified with the Hussein government. | | | Writing in the Washington Post Scott Wilson reports hundreds of Baath Party members have been killed by Iraqis in Baghdad alone and the rate of kiliing of Baathists by Iraqis is increasing. | | | The killers appear to be working from lists looted from Iraq's bombed-out security service buildings, which kept records on informants and victims alike. |
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| | Covert war in Iraq includes Israel, former Baathists: New Sy Hersh report |
| | In interviews over the past month, American officials and former officials said that the main target was a hard-core group of Baathists who are believed to be behind much of the underground insurgency against the soldiers of the United States and its allies. | | | Its highest priority is the neutralization of the Baathist insurgents, by capture or assassination. | | | Topic: Covert war in Iraq includes Israel, former Baathists: New Sy Hersh report |
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| | ZNet Iraq Foreign Fighters and Baathists |
| | To be sure, resistance is coming from "Baathist remnants" as well, and there are surely a few "foreign terrorists" in Iraq now, but Bush's self-serving fairy tale is just a way for him to obscure the central reality in Iraq: mass opposition and resistance amongst Iraqis to a brutal, illegal occupation that they hate. | | | While Bush puts blame for the instability in Iraq on these bogeymen, the occupation is simultaneously pursuing a policy of 're-Baathification', as Wolf Blitzer put it a recent piece from CNN. | | | It is simply to point out the lies and contradictions that drip from all the mantras he constantly invokes. |
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| | Iraqis will hear Baathists' appeals |
| | Their fate will also depend on reviews of the circumstances that led them to join the party, their qualifications and job histories, according to a written decree by the Governing Council. | | | Chalabi denied that the move is a turnaround by the coalition, saying the council's intention has always been not to exact revenge but "to cleanse Iraqi society and Iraqi state from the scourge of the Baath Party." | | | BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In a move that may signal a more measured attitude toward some members of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council said Sunday it will allow some senior Baathists to appeal their dismissals from government jobs or retire and receive pensions. |
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| | USATODAY.com - U.S. relaxing ban on former members of Saddam's party |
| | Bremer and U.S. officials insisted that former Baathists "with blood on their hands" would not regain their posts. | | | U.S. officials say the easing will still keep Baathists who committed crimes out of government. | | | U.S. relaxing ban on former members of Saddam's party |
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| | Prince Pundit |
| | Encouraged by the security vacuum in the wake of Saddam's overthrow last month, some Iraqis -- particularly members of the long-oppressed Shiite majority -- are reported by residents of al-Thawra to be hunting down and killing former Baath officials. | | | In al-Thawra, which was officially called Saddam City until last month but renamed al-Sadr City in honor of a top Shiite cleric killed by the government in 1999, residents say between five and 10 Baathists have been killed so far. | | | Politically sidelined since the birth of modern Iraq some 80 years ago, Shiites insist they now want representation proportionate to their numbers. |
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| | CNN.com - Chalabi blames Baathists for raid - May 20, 2004 |
| | Chalabi said the Iraqi police have been "completely subverted" by Baathists. | | | Chalabi was the champion of a plan to rid Iraq of Baath Party influence that has caused rancor among many Iraqis. | | | BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi said the raid on his compound Thursday was engineered by Baathists who control the Iraqi police and who are now protected by the Coalition Provisional Authority. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/20/chalabi.raid
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| | The American Street » Blog Archive » Saddam, Baathists Win! |
| | As the new Baathist government takes shape, Saddam says he will restore the order that has eluded his country in the two years since he was deposed. | | | Exit polls by Fox News show Saddam Hussein the winner of this weekend’s Iraq election. | | | The American Street » Blog Archive » Saddam, Baathists Win! |
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http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/2005/01/28/saddam-baathists-win
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| | Whiskey Bar: Taking a Baath |
| | Policy on Baath Party is relaxed by the U.S. BAGHDAD The American administration here said on Thursday that it was loosening a policy it put in place last May that is aimed at purging the Iraqi government of members of the Baath Party, the country's former rulers. | | | The new policy will allow the quick return to public life of former Baath Party members who are considered to be innocent, capable people who were Baathists in name only, said Dan Senor, a spokesman for the occupation authority, at a news conference on Thursday. | | | Or I should say it marked a turn away from the announced prewar policy, since the actual policy was to put Ahmed Chalabi in charge of Iraq as soon as possible. |
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