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baath
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pan-Arab socialist party, founded by intellectuals in Syria in 1943, from Arabic ba't "resurrection, renaissance."
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Baath , Ba'ath or Ba'th may refer to: Politics Ba'ath Party Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction) Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction) Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – ...
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By 1973, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recommended increasing the covert money because Iraq had become the chief Soviet client in the Middle East and the Baath regime under Saddam, as Kissinger put it in his memoirs, “continued to finance terrorist organizations as far afield as Pakistan” and was a force trying to block an Arab-Israeli peace.
They had to decide what level of participation the Baath Party would be allowed in a post-Saddam order.
On the foreign ministry, he said the goal was to “purge the ministry of senior Baath leadership and intelligence officers.
In Kirkuk, near the border of the Kurdish-controlled territory, some 20,000 protesters marched on the Baath Party headquarters calling for Saddam’s downfall.
For Wolfowitz, Saddam’s Baathist party was a Nazi-like organization of gangsters and sadists.
Fadil Amin, an unemployed translator, shares his euphoria saying, "This is the best July 17" I've seen so far because there is no Saddam and no Baath.
When he was twenty, the young thug joined the Iraqi Baath party, where he became a triggerman disposing of the party's enemies, of whom there were many.
Saddam returned to Iraq and ended up in prison nine months later when the Baathists were overthrown by an arm junta.
When the Baathists seized power again in 1968, Saddam was there in the councils of power.
As he climbed the steps of the building that housed his office, he thought about the latest reports of out of the Middle East, about the Baath Party uprising in Syria and the Wahabi Intifada in Egypt.