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	Baath Party
		Baath Party, formally the Baath Arab Socialist Party: Political party and movement influential among Arab communities in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Iraq.
		Articulated as the principle of Arab nationalism, the Baath movement was one of several political groups that drew legitimacy from an essentially reactive ideology.
		The Iraqi branch of the Baath party was established in 1954 after the merger of the Baath with Akram al-Hurani’s Arab Socialist Party in 1952, to form the Arab Baath Socialist Party.
	www.damascus-online.com /se/hist/baath_party.htm (476 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - The Iraqi Baath Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Baath movement in one country was considered merely an aspect of, or a phase leading to, "a unified democratic socialist Arab nation".
		The crucial test of legitimacy for any Baath government would be whether or not their policies and actions were compatible with the basic aims of the revolution.
		Baath joined other opposition parties to form the United National Front and participated in the activities that led to the 1958 revolution ending the British control of Iraq.
	english.aljazeera.net /Special+Reports/Baath+Party.htm (1135 words)

	Syria - The Baath Party Apparatus
		At the eighth Baath Party regional congress in January 1985, the Central Committee's membership was increased from seventy-five to ninety-five.
		Baath Party presence in the armed forces was separate but parallel to that in the civilian apparatus.
		Baath Party appointees included a five-member Inspection and Control Committee, elected in 1980 and charged with enforcing the statutes of the Baath Party and monitoring internal affairs, discipline, and deviation from party norms.
	countrystudies.us /syria/54.htm (1291 words)

	Al Ba'th Party Profile
		Baath Party, formally the Baath Arab Socialist Party, is the party in power in Syria and Iraq.
		Regional Command Leadership of the Baath Party is held by Bashar Al-Assad in Syria.
		Baath Party remains committed to a unified Arab nation even though as a practical matter, domestic concerns in Iraq have commanded the most attention.
	www.iraqinews.com /party_baath_party.shtml (429 words)

	USATODAY.com - Franks orders Saddam's Baath Party to cease existence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — The United States declared Saddam Hussein's Baath Party dead Sunday, with the war's commander telling Iraqis that the instrument of their deposed dictator's power was dissolved and promising to purge its influence from the country it dominated for 35 years.
		Unseating the Baath, which advocated Arab unity but became a personal tool of Saddam and his lieutenants, was considered a top priority of American military planners in the run-up to the Iraq war, which began March 20 and largely ended by mid-April.
		The Baath Party was founded in neighboring Syria in 1943 and spread across the Arab world, promoting Arab superiority and Arab unity with a violent, Soviet-style party structure.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-05-11-baath-party_x.htm (850 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Baath Party Is Dissolved, American General Tells Iraqis
		Unseating the Baath was considered a top priority of American military planners in the run-up to the Iraq war, which began March 20 and had largely ended by mid-April.
		The Arab Baath Socialist Party gained a totalitarian grip over nearly all aspects of Iraqi society since its first brief lurch to power in 1963 and its final takeover in 1968, which would last until last month.
		The Baath Party was founded in Syria in 1943 and spread around the Arab world, promoting Arab superiority and Arab unity with a violent, Soviet-style party structure.
	www.truthout.org /docs_03/051203I.shtml (720 words)

	AllRefer.com - Iraq - Politics - The Baath Party \| Iraqi Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Baath was forced underground again, and it experienced a period of internal dissension as members debated over which tactics were appropriate to achieve their political objectives.
		In 1968 the Baath regime confronted a wide range of problems, such as ethnic and sectarian tensions, the stagnant condition of agriculture, commerce, and industry, the inefficiency and the corruption of government, and the lack of political consensus among the three main sociopolitical groups--the Shia Arabs, the Sunni Arabs, and the Kurds.
		The Baath's elitist approach derived from the principle that the party's effectiveness could only be measured by its demonstrable ability to mobilize and to lead the people, and not by "size, number, or form." Participation in the party was virtually a requisite for social mobility.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/iraq/iraq73.html (2198 words)

	The Syrian-Iraqi Baath party and its Nazi beginnings
		The Baath Arab Socialist Party, to give the organisation its formal title, is the original secular Arab nationalist movement, founded in Damascus in the 1940s to combat Western colonial rule.
		In 1947, the Baath Party was set up as a single party covering all the Arab counties, under a National Command (actually a pan-national body).
		As a counterweight to the Baath, Qassim allied with the Iraqi Communist Party (the strongest in the Middle East).
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/baath.html (1313 words)

	THE BAATH PARTY SEEKS A YOUTHFUL IMAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The pan-Arab Baath Socialist Party, which celebrated its 38th year of rule in Syria last week, wants to replace its traditional image by undertaking economic reforms with a rejuvenated leadership.
		According to Musli, this reform of the Baath’s electoral system is an attempt to “dynamize” the party, a structure whose 1.25-million membership accounts for seven percent of Syria’s 17 million inhabitants.
		Theoretically Syria’s Baath is only a “regional command” of the party, which is also in power in Iraq, but the two rival branches have long been estranged.
	www.mmorning.com /article.asp?Article=2652&CategoryID=6 (460 words)

	Shia-Baath Relations
		Since the 1980's, the Baath Government reportedly attempted to eliminate the senior Shi'a religious leadership (the Mirjaiyat) through killings, disappearances, and summary executions.
		Baath security forces also forced Shi'a inhabitants of the southern marshes to relocate to major southern cities and to areas along the Iranian border.
		The Baath Government's diversion of supplies in the south limited the Shi'a population's access to food, medicine, drinking water, and transportation.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/religion-shia-baath.htm (709 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| The Iraqi Baath party
		Though the Baath party was formally the institution that ruled Iraq, actual power, even in the early days, was in the hands of a narrow elite united by family and tribal ties, not ideology.
		As part of Saddam Hussein's power structure and complicit in his brutal rule, the Baath party was expected to disintegrate with the end of his rule.
		Analysts have warned though that the destruction of the Baath might lead to the destruction of the vast numbers of civil organisations swallowed up by the Baath during years of totalitarian rule.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2886733.stm (623 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Iraqis Killing Former Baath Party Members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A senior U.S. official said the order was intended to "drive a stake through [the Baath Party's] heart," but many Iraqis who continue to see party officials walking free believe it did not go far enough.
		The number of former Baath Party officials killed since the war ended is difficult to pin down in a city of 5 million people with only two functioning police stations, no recordkeeping and a destroyed government.
		Revenge killings on a smaller scale have been reported in the cities of Najaf, Karbala and Basra in the Shiite-dominated center and south of the country, where a bloody rebellion was put down in 1991 by the Sunni-controlled Baath government.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A12583-2003May19?language=printer (1057 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Thousands of Iraqis Rally to Renounce Violence, Baath Party
		The Baath Party is the party of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
		Former officers in Saddam's Iraqi army who also were Baath Party members filed into the academy and signed an agreement that disavowed their party affiliation and pledged to cooperate fully with the Coalition Provisional Authority in serving the people of Iraq.
		Noncommissioned officers who served in the former Iraqi army were scheduled to come to the academy today to renounce their membership and show their support for a new Iraq.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Jan2004/n01272004_200401273.html (343 words)

	US Using Baath As A Scapegoat
		Low-ranking Baath member Muayid Ghadad, a security guard at a sewage plant, was sitting on a rusty chair three weeks ago when two men pumped six bullets into his head and chest.
		"The Baath is gone and the Americans know it," said Sheikh Kassem Sudani, a Shi'ite cleric, standing over old Baath documents scattered outside a former party office.
		Every time there is an attack on their troops they say it was militants or the Baath.
	www.rense.com /general38/scape.htm (687 words)

	Iraqis struggle over Baath purge \| csmonitor.com
		Piled two feet high are petitions from students and faculty alike, appealing to US officials for favorite professors to be exempt from a decree that fires all ranking Baath Party members.
		Party apparatchiks with critical skills, who "demonstrated" that they were not committed to the Baath Party under Mr.
		But some say it did happen to Hussam al-Rawi, a former ranking Baath Party member and British-educated former head of the architecture department, who now must "volunteer" to finish the year, until his status is resolved.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0626/p06s01-woiq.html?worldNav (1096 words)

	CNN.com - Baghdad security tight on Baath anniversary - Jul. 17, 2003
		A U.S. soldier dies in a convoy attack in Baghdad.
		The resistance appears to be organized "at the regional level" and composed of midlevel members of the Baath Party, Iraq's intelligence services and remnants of the Special Republican Guard, Abizaid said.
		A U.S. soldier was killed Wednesday in an attack on a convoy in Baghdad, bringing the number of American battle deaths in the Iraqi conflict to 148, surpassing the 147 killed in combat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/07/17/sprj.irq.main (905 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Opinion \| Blood Baath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Part of the process of dismissing Iraqi intellectuals, professors, and lecturers was known as de-Baathification, and with the exception of the few returning exiles, the former Baath Party members constitute nearly an absolute majority of professors in post-war Iraq.
		Not that the curriculum under Hussein was ever a source of a radical renewal that could actually provide the conditions for the emergence of a secular, moral and democratic leadership.
		Known as "Arab Culture and Socialism", the four-year required undergraduate course was a brain numbing, chauvinistic and hyper-nationalist occasion for the unrestrained celebration of everything Baath, elevating the writings of Baath Party theoreticians to the canonical heights of the early 20th century Pan-Arabist work of George Antonius's The Arab Awakening.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/711/op63.htm (948 words)

	USATODAY.com - Allawi cautions Shiites on Baath ban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In an interview with The Associated Press, Ayad Allawi urged the incoming government to focus on national unity and reconciliation rather than hit at those Iraqis — mainly Sunni Muslims —; who dominated Iraq until their abrupt removal from power following the U.S.-led war in 2003.
		Allawi, a former exile and surgeon whose previous Baath Party connections made him a valuable intelligence source for both the British and the Americans, was postwar Iraq's first prime minister.
		He is now poised to vacate the seat after his political party came in a distant third.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-02-17-allawi-baath_x.htm?csp=36 (688 words)

	On the Baath party congress
		The 9th congress of the Baath Party extended its deliberations until Tuesday after it was scheduled to be concluded today.
		For Deir ezz Zour province Saeed Hammadi and in the province of Damascus the minister of Justice Nabil al-Khatib, the secretary of the Baath party branch at Damascus university Ali Diab, and Farouk Abu al-Shamaat and Mahmoud Zaatareyah.
		However, the Syrian PA will meet on June 25 to approve the decision of the Baath Party regional leadership on nominating Bashar al-Assad for the presidency and the nomination will be put for public referendum.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/000619/2000061906.html (840 words)

	Ba'ath Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Arab Socialist Ba'th Party (also spelled Baath or Ba'ath; Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي) was founded in 1945 as a radical, left-wing, secular Arab nationalist political party.
		Al-Baath wa-Lubnân [Arabic only] ("The Baath and Lebanon"), NY Firzli, Beirut, Dar-al-Tali'a Books, 1973.
		Online magazine (Sympathetic to the Goal of the Baath with sections about Saddam and the Baath) in Arabic, English and French
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baath_Party (3273 words)

	Informed Comment
		A third Baath coup is no more inherently implausible than the first two.
		Only 6 percent of the fighters captured at Fallujah were foreigners, and Fallujah anyway had long had a high foreign-born population, being a frontier and desert port.
		By Baath I don't necessarily mean committed ideological Baathists, but the party was how they were formed politically, along with networks of clientelage based in the Sunni Arab heartland.
	www.juancole.com /2005/01/third-baath-coup-if-as-i-have-argued.html (487 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		The U.S. can't purge all two million Baath members, most of whom were not Saddam's butchers.
		Amnesty for Baath leaders would send exactly the wrong message to Iraqis, who are being told to put their faith in democratic institutions and the rule of law.
		That was the lesson of Germany after World War II, and the Nazis ruled in Berlin for a much shorter time (11 years) than Saddam's Baath did in Baghdad (35 years).
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110003409 (657 words)

	Saddam's Brain
		It was Aflaq, too, who in 1963 elevated Saddam Hussein to the Regional Command in Iraq's Baath party, and so set him on his course to dictatorship.
		These beliefs and habits of mind he absorbed from the Baath party, and ultimately from its founder-leader.
		It is Aflaq whom Saddam cites when he insists, as he does frequently, that the Baath party is not like other parties.
	weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/837uvzrs.asp (639 words)

	GN Online: Baath Party re-emerges under new name - UK
		Members of the Baath party, the former political base of ousted president Saddam Hussain, have started to regroup, according to Britain's special representative to Iraq, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
		The newspaper said former Baathist leaders who had fallen out with Saddam in the past want to set up a party under a new name to participate in the country's new political climate, with Iraq's former leader excluded from joining the organisation.
		US military officials say die-hard supporters of Saddam and the deposed Baath Party are behind the hit-and-run attacks plaguing US forces in the Sunni heartlands north and west of Baghdad.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=104797 (332 words)

	seanbonner: Baath Torture
		Michael J Totten points out this video (WMV) that is supposed to be a clip of some guys getting tortured at the hands of the Baath Party.
		It's pretty rough, basically it's a bunch of dudes getting their asses kicked by a bunch of other dudes using canes, and sticks, and clubs, and other wipping like things.
		That page has a link to "New Baath Party Tourture Techniques" which is a bunch of crudely drawn illustrations of drills going through people hands and other fun things like that.
	www.seanbonner.com /blog/archives/000562.php (319 words)

	BASP
		Comrade Abdullah Al-ahmar, assistant secretary-general of the Baath Party, attended a reception of the Malaysian and Chinese embassies in Damascus
		Comrade Abdullah al-Ahmar Assistant Secretary General of the Party Meets the participants in the central partisan preparation session And confirms the importance of holding The 10th regional conference of the Baath party In innovating partisan life by enriching the Baath march theoretical, organizational and practices.
		In the opening of the 4th periodical meeting of the national progressive front branches` leaderships, Masharqa: Syria is committed to her stands and Israel is the most dangerous center of terrorism in the region and the world
	www.baath-party.org /eng/news.asp (1177 words)

	Whiskey Bar: Taking a Baath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You've probably heard that the RNC branch office on the Tigris has lifted the sweeping ban on Baath Party members serving in the government and armed forces of the New Iraq®: Policy on Baath Party is relaxed by the U.S....
		Policy on Baath Party is relaxed by the U.S. BAGHDAD The American administration here said on Thursday that it was loosening a policy it put in place last May that is aimed at purging the Iraqi government of members of the Baath Party, the country's former rulers.
		The new policy will allow the quick return to public life of former Baath Party members who are considered to be innocent, capable people who were Baathists in name only, said Dan Senor, a spokesman for the occupation authority, at a news conference on Thursday.
	billmon.org /archives/001420.html (7459 words)

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