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alt. Abbreviated name for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Socialist%20Baath%20Party, a secular Arab nationalist political party present in several countries in the Mid-East, most prominently Iraq and Syria. n. Abbreviated name for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Socialist%20Baath%20Party, a secular Arab nationalist political party present in several countries in the Mid-East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.
Usage examples of "ba'ath".
He had risen rapidly, despite the self-appointment of Saddam Hussein as President and the regular placement of Ba'ath Party apparatchiks in posts they were patently unqualified to fill.
The Mossad leader ended up by describing the layout of the Ba'ath headquarters once again.
Then a young Captain changed sides in the 1963 coup and the Ba'ath Party took power.
She stopped and stared across the road at the Ba'ath Party headquarters.
He knew the pill was good for two hours, no more, and he suspected that it was already forty or fifty minutes since they had driven him away from Ba'ath headquarters.
President, as we all know, Iraq is a majority Shi'a Muslim country ruled by a Sunni minority through the Ba'ath political party.
But if the Ba'ath Party fell along with its leader, then Iraq might revert to majority religious rule.
He was supposed to be a trusted intelligence specialist, Badrayn remembered on reflection, a loyal Sunni officer, son of a Ba'ath Party member.
The whole Ba'ath leadership is in the jug, and I don't think they're going to be coming out, at least not standing up.
This is the entire Ba'ath Party leadership and all the remaining senior military commanders.
Some of the Ba'ath officials shot in Baghdad had made world news telecasts, with the usual warnings about children and the sensitive, who invariably watched anyway.
The first cousin and son-in-law of the country's Supreme Leader, The Defender of Islam, Secretary General of the Ba'ath Socialist Party, Head of State, and Commander of the Armed Forces surely had his benefits, but connection to all those titles also carried its liabilities.
I run it to protect our father, the Ba'ath Party, and the state, and it will always be so.
I can't see how Syrian intelligence could have per suaded him to blow up Arafat and Mazen and Paine and himself for the glory of the Ba'ath party.
Senior Iraqi officials and Ba'ath party members and advisors had a standing— if covert—offer of safe refuge from Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, son of the late president Hafez al-Assad, one of the most feared of all modern Arab dictators.