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Iraq: Baath Party Plot Security Officials Freed From Custody

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 01.19.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities released without charge the nearly two dozen security officials who had been accused this week of conspiring to revi...

Iraqi Baath Revivalists Freed

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 01.19.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities released without charge the nearly two dozen security officials who had been accused this week of conspiring to revi...

The Folly of de-Clintonification

Jared Levy | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics


Jared Levy

As Barack Obama goes about forming a cabinet, cries have gone up that Obama is committing some kind of sin by appointing a number of people who worked in the Clinton Administration.

The U.S. Attack on Syria: Implications for the Next Administration

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.07.2009 | World


Stephen Zunes

Obama's refusal to criticize the U.S. attack on Syria raises the prospect that rather than pursue the diplomatic route, he will instead "pick up where the Bush Administration has now ended."

Iraqi Bloggers Consider McCain

Amira Al Hussaini | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home


Amira Al Hussaini

"Americans will vote for McCain. If they don't, it will amount to the same thing. They love a show of muscles. We will show you muscles. McCain will use al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda will eagerly oblige."

Iraq's New Law on Ex-Baathists Could Bring Another Purge

Washington Post | Amit R. Paley and Joshua Partlow | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Maj. Gen. Hussein al-Awadi, a former official in Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, became the commander of the Iraqi National Police despite a 2003 law ba...

Former Baathists Fear New Reconciliation Law Is Plot Against Them

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party were skeptical Sunday of a new law enabling them to reclaim government jobs, saying they feared it migh...

Iraq Parliament Reinstates Baathists

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Iraq's parliament passed a benchmark law Saturday allowing lower-ranking former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to reclaim government jobs, th...