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• Eight Years On

  …much everyone in the country, even his inner circle. I was serving in Baghdad back in 1979 when he turned a congress of his Baath Party into a public purge, ordering dozens of his former comrades to leave the room and face immediate execution. Regionally …

  09/05/2009Nation
• Maliki’s Fine Line

  …Shiites for decades. They want more Sunnis suspected of insurgency to be released from prison, and for the removal of the Baath Party ban. Kurds are perhaps the most anxious. They've been America's closest allies, but their ambitions to expand their …

  By Larry Kaplow

  07/21/2009International
• ‘An Honor I Do Not Claim’

  …Baathists were excluded and that therefore there was lack of competence. This was patent nonsense, as the bulk of members of the Baath Party were never fired. And among the high-ranking Baathists, almost 90 percent of the people who requested exemptions were given …

  By Lennox Samuels

  06/25/2009International
• The Return of the Baathists

  …people who used to do that—and who rebuilt the place after massive U.S. airstrikes in 1991—had mostly joined the Baath Party on their way to graduate educations and top jobs. During the years of chaos that followed the U.S. invasion, many of …

  By Larry Kaplow

  03/28/2009Iraq War
• An ‘Underpoliced’ Society

  …conclusions do you draw from that if any? Well, you've had fedayeen -type attacks in other theaters in India—certainly in Jammu ……limited group of suspects. But there are no hard signatures. Fedayeen attacks of this nature on a much smaller scale have been often witnessed …

  By Jason Overdorf

  11/28/2008International

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