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Baath Party, Iraq Baathists, Iraq parliment, iraq surge, Iraq war, Justice and Accountability Law, Saddam Hussein, War in Iraq, warwire

New Iraq Legislation Might Further Exclude Baathists

NY Times   |  Solomon Moore   |   January 14, 2008 09:41 AM

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A day after the Iraqi Parliament passed legislation billed as the first significant political step forward in Iraq after months of deadlock, there were troubling questions -- and troubling silences -- about the measure's actual effects.

The measure, known as the Justice and Accountability Law, is meant to open government jobs to former members of the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein -- the bureaucrats, engineers, city workers, teachers, soldiers and police officers who made the government work until they were barred from office after the American invasion in 2003.

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