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NEWS ABOUT: Baath Party

Baath Party stories: 14 news summaries

(Newser) - Despite entreaties from Washington, Iraq’s majority-Shiite government is hardening its stance against the outlawed Sunni-dominated Baath party, the New York Times reports. Blamed by some for recent bombings of Shiites, Baathists are “filled with hate from head to toe," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said this week,... More »

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Saddam Hussein • Nouri al-Maliki • United States • Iraq Civil War • Baath Party • reconciliation

 Iraq Officials Busted 
 in Coup Plot 

Generals, old regime members arrested in Ministry of Interior sweep

Dec 18, 08 3:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Iraq has arrested up to 35 Ministry of the Interior officials over the last three days for their part in a plot to revive Saddam Hussein's Baath party, the New York Times reports. Some being held were in the early stages of planning a coup, say officials. Four generals were... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Nouri al-Maliki • Iraq government • Baathists • Baath Party • Iraq Army • coup d'etat

 Saddam's Last Days Revealed 

CNN tours the former dictator's US detention cell

Mar 27, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The dictator who ruled with a murderous fist spent his time writing in his journal and tending to a small garden his captors allowed him in the prison courtyard. And on his execution day, the man known as "Vic" told guards to tell his daughter he was going to... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • execution • US military • dictatorship • Baath Party • Iraq war

Iraq Ends Ban on Saddam-Era Baath Officials

Will allow thousands of civil servants to reapply for jobs, pensions

Jan 12, 08 9:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The Iraqi parliament today cleared the way for former members of Saddam's Baath party to rejoin the government and military, the BBC reports. The move is seen as a way to smooth tensions between Shiites, who control the new government, and Sunnis, who ruled under Saddam and dominated the Baath... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Shiite • Iraqi Parliament • Sunnis • Baath Party

Shiites Shout Down Iraqi Law

Bill to let Baathists
in government gets shelved after uproar; Bush calls law vital

Nov 25, 07 8:39 PM CST
(Newser) - Iraqi lawmakers shouted down a bill today that would let members of Saddam's Baath party return to public posts, AFP reports. Shiite lawmakers heckled the first reading of the measure, which Bush has touted as a benchmark of Iraqi progress. Now the bill goes to a legal body for changes,... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Shiite • Iraq parliament • Baathists • Baath Party

Iranian Official Hits US for Scapegoating

Ambassador to Iraq
says US is trying 'to cover up failed plans'

Sep 16, 07 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US is hyping an Iranian threat to Iraq to deflect attention away from its mistakes, Iran’s ambassador to Iraq told CNN, again denying allegations Tehran is attacking American troops trying to stabilize the country. “US security plans for Iraq have not succeeded,” Hassan Kazemi-Qomi said. The... More »

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Iraq • Iran • insurgents • Tehran • David Petraeus • US troops • Hassan Kazemi Qomi • Baath Party • Iraq war

Iraq Making
Slow Gains on Goals, Says White House

Government met only half of its benchmarks

Sep 14, 07 11:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq has made "satisfactory" progress on only half of its 18 benchmarks for success, the White House told Congress today, hours after President Bush said the country’s advancements merited a strong US military presence there. Since the July progress report, only one benchmark—reintegrating Baathists into the government—... More »

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Congress • Tony Snow • White House • David Petraeus • Ryan Crocker • Capitol Hill • troop withdrawal • benchmarks • Baath Party • Iraq war • George W. Bush

No Chemical Ali, But Saddam's Soldiers Wanted in Army Again

Iraqi forces desperate for skilled officers

Aug 29, 07 7:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraqi Army and police need a few good men, and they’re more and more willing to look in Saddam’s old ledger. Many of the new forces’ problems are said to stem from the 2003 decision by the US to disband the standing army; now recruiters are trying... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Baath Party • Iraq Army • Iraq police

US Hails Iraq Breakthrough

Shiite, Sunni  and Kurdish leaders  announce deal on key issues

Aug 27, 07 5:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - In what is being hailed as a breakthrough in Iraq, Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders yesterday  announced that they have reached a consensus on key political issues, Reuters reports. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the other leaders claimed to have forged an agreement on releasing some detainees, easing curbs on... More »

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Iraq • Sunni • Shiite • Nouri al-Maliki • Kurds • Abdul Mahdi • Iraq government • Jalal Talabani • Masoud Barzani • Tariq al Hashemi • Baath Party

More Cabinet Defections Imperil Iraqi Regime

Political chaos rises as more cabinet-members

Aug 6, 07 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four more Iraqi cabinet ministers said today they're boycotting meetings, bringing the total to a whopping 17 and leaving PM Nouri al-Maliki with a tenuous majority in the 37-member body. In the latest round of infighting, the newest defectors, all allies of the country's first postwar PM, charge that Maliki... More »

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Sunni • Shiite • Nouri al-Maliki • Kurds • Iraq government • Baath Party

Hoon Admits
Iraq Screwups

British defense minister regrets mistakes, underestimating
Dick Cheney

May 2, 07 5:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a confessional interview about his Iraq war regrets, the former British defense secretary tells the Guardian that the Brits' biggest miscalculation was underestimating Dick Cheney. Geoff Hoon said he and other senior ministers would air disagreements with Bush, Rumsfeld, and Powell, and they'd come away thinking they'd made their... More »

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Iraq • Dick Cheney • Geoff Hoon • Britain • Baath Party • Iraq war

Sunnis Threaten To Quit Cabinet

The largest Sunni
Arab bloc in parliament issues an ultimatum

May 1, 07 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The largest bloc of Sunni Arabs in Iraq's parliament threatened to pull its five ministers out of the cabinet yesterday, the New York Times reports. To forestall the pullout, which would further undermine the faltering government, President Bush phoned Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni Arab vice president, to discuss their concerns. More »

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Iraq • Sunni • Iraqi Parliament • Iraqi Consensus Front • Tariq al Hashemi • Baath Party

Cleric Opposes Rebaathification

Sistani rejects law aimed at quelling
Sunni insurgency

Apr 3, 07 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A bill allowing Saddam's party members back into power in Iraq has been rejected by that country's most powerful cleric. The law, aggressively  pushed by the U.S.,  would  allow former low-level Baathists--most of them Sunnis--to hold positions in government. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the powerful Shiite cleric, dismissed... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Sunni • Shiite • Ba'thists • Ali al Sistani • Paul Bremer • Baath Party

Bill Would Put Ba'athists
Back in Power

Aim is to woo Sunnis into Shiite-dominated government 

Mar 28, 07 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ba'athists will be allowed back in government posts if a bill proposed yesterday, aimed at  reconciling dissident Sunnis with the Shiite-dominated government, passes the Iraqi parliament.  The U.S has been pushing for the law to law to woo the former Saddam loyalists —mostly Sunnis— into the political... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • War on Terror • sectarian violence • Sunni • Shiite • insurgents • Ba'thists • Baath Party

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