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Article: Back in the 'hood again.(after a year of relentlessly purging members of Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party from top positions in the government and Army, the U.S.-led coalition has concluded that it needs their help)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 17, 2004
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BAGHDAD--A funny thing happened on the way toward Iraqi sovereignty. Last week, former Iraqi Army officers, led by a Republican Guard general, strode through Fallujah's streets in their old olive-green uniforms and shook hands with a U.S. Marine commander, sealing a pact to retake control of the city's armed forces. And Iraqi Minister of Defense Ali Allawi watched it all, aghast. "Iraq is too fragile . . . to overcome the legitimate fears of people that all those creeps are coming back into power," he says.
The Baathists are back. After a year of relentlessly purging members of Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party from top positions in the government and Army, the ...